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Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) - Member briefing on new NICE guideline

On 31 October 2021, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated version of the ME/CFS clinical guideline. The RCPCH consulted on the guideline and met with NICE as they worked with patient groups and representative organisations to finalise the guideline. This b...

Community child health

General paediatrics

Safeguarding

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National Diabetes Quality Programme - Impact report 2023

This report highlights the impact our programme had on paediatric diabetes units across England and Wales from 2018 to early 2023, from the successful Quality Improvement Collaboratives to individual service peer reviews and self-assessment.

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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National Diabetes Quality Programme - Self-assessment report 2018-2022

This report provides an overview from the self-assessments completed by paediatric diabetes units in England and Wales between 2018 and 2022. More than 150 self-assessment measures evaluate compliance to the programme and to Best Practice Tariff requirements.

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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National guidance for the management of children in hospital with viral respiratory tract infections (2023)

These updated recommendations on the management of children in hospital with viral respiratory tract infections in hospital settings are for clinicians to support planning in partnership with local infection prevention control teams. While some recommendations describe organisational structures i...

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National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) animation

The NNAP looks at the care babies receive if they are born early or unwell and need to be admitted to a neonatal unit. This short animation introduces the NNAP to parents and carers. It outlines how the audit works and what resources it produces. It describes the data collection process and how t...

Quality improvement

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National Neonatal Audit Programme Summary report on 2022 data

This report summarises the key messages and national recommendations developed by consensus by the NNAP Project Board and Methodology and Dataset Group, based on NNAP data relating to babies discharged from neonatal care in England and Wales between 1 January and 31 December 2022 and Scotland betwee...

Quality improvement

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National Neonatal Audit Programme virtual update event 2020 - resources

On 12 November 2020, the National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) hosted its inaugural virtual update event as a live webinar. You can access resources from the event on this page.

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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit - data submission

We are now accepting data for the 2024-25 audit year. Download the current dataset, templates for submitting data via CSV and questionnaire and our user guide.

Endocrinology

Community services

Diabetes

Clinical guidelines and standards

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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit - our publications

These are the publications, abstracts and presentations that have been published or presented by members involved with the NPDA audit as authors, co-authors and collaborators, on our behalf. You can access these online while some are available for download at the bottom of the page.

Endocrinology

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit - transparency and open data

NPDA collects data from paediatric diabetes units from across England and Wales and reports annually. This page has information about the data collection process and analysis, our privacy statements and data protection impact assessment, and how you can access NPDA data for research.