Clinical guidelines

Paediatricians and their colleagues regularly use clinical guidelines to manage the treatment of children's medical conditions. We develop clinical guidelines to high standards in line with our NICE accreditation.

Setting standards for development of clinical guidelines in child health

Updated in April 2020 and accredited by NICE since 2006, our process manual covers grading evidence, consensus methods, dissemination and implementation.

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A full list of paediatric guidelines, which meet the standards for RCPCH endorsement, and which are published by NICE, SIGN, Royal Colleges or paediatric specialty groups.
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We can help organisations and groups create high quality guidelines. Our methodology outlines the steps you'll need to take to get RCPCH endorsement.
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It is essential that paediatricians and other child health professionals contribute to the development of guidelines. See current and upcoming opportunities.

This resource for clinicians helps inform clinical practice, child protection procedures and professional and expert opinion in the legal system.

You can access this on our Child Protection Portal, which hosts safeguarding guidelines and resources.