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Medication safety: Best practice for effective paediatric ward rounds - clinical practice guideline

Published in December 2023, this clinical practice guideline developed by RCPCH and the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group Joint Standing Committee on Medicines (RCPCH-NPPG), covers the inclusion of medication analysis in the paediatric ward round environment to improve medication safety.

Drugs and medicines

Clinical guidelines and standards

Patient safety

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Medicinal cannabis for children and young people - briefing (updated February 2020)

The law in the UK was changed in November 2018 to make prescribing of medical cannabis legal, but parents have been struggling to secure prescriptions. For parents whose children have a condition for which they feel medicinal cannabis is helping, not having the medicine readily available is incredib...

Drugs and medicines

Epilepsy

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Medicine dosing in childhood obesity

UK Medicines Information service (UKMI) in conjunction with the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG) have produced updated guidance on how to dose medication in children who are obese.

Drugs and medicines

Obesity

Patient safety

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Medicines Committee consultation responses

This committee regularly responds to consultations from government organisations and public bodies such as the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN).

Drugs and medicines

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Medicines for Children - information for parents and carers

Our website provides practical and reliable information to parents and carers about giving medicines to their child - with free access to information leaflets on over 200 medicines, videos and news.

Drugs and medicines

Patient information

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Meds IQ - sharing QI resources for paediatric medicines safety

Medication errors are a significant but preventable cause of harm to children and young people. Meds IQ brings together quality improvement (QI) tools and improvement projects that have been developed to address this problem. This is part of QI Central, our quality improvement sharing platform, whic...

Drugs and medicines

Quality improvement

Patient safety

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Medusa - injectable medicines guide

Medusa provides guidance on the preparation and administration of injectable medicines in adult and paediatric clinical areas with links, if appropriate, to local practice guidelines. It contains over 400 monographs for medicines given via the intravenous (IV) route.

Drugs and medicines

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Members' recipes

Cooking serves multiple purposes. Aside from providing the fuel needed to get through the day, it can also be a fun way to express creativity and share ideas with friends and colleagues. In this feature, we showcase members' favourite recipes to inspire and indulge with!

Membership

Wellbeing for health professionals

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Mental Health Inequalities (Wales) - consultation response

In February 2022 we responded to the Health & Social Care Committee’s consultation on mental health inequalities. We welcomed this inquiry as this will ensure that action will be taken to address the people and communities affected by these issues and reduce mental health inequalities in Wales.

Mental health

Public health

Health inequalities

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NI Executive Children and Young People’s Strategy 3 Year Delivery Plan - consultation response

In 2021 the Department of Education published the overarching 10 Year Children and Young People’s Strategy (2020 – 2030) on behalf of the NI Executive. Subsequently, in 2022, the Executive produced an initial draft three Year Delivery Plan (2021-24) and published for public consultation.

Health policy

Participation

Children and young people's voice

Wellbeing for children and young people

Quality improvement