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Revalidation - licence to practise requirements for RCPCH designated roles and other roles

The guidance is intended to assist paediatricians who are unsure whether a licence to practise is required for their role, if they are not simultaneously working as a clinical paediatrician.

Governance and regulation

Revalidation

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Revalidation and appraisal

Revalidation is the process by which doctors demonstrate to the General Medical Council (GMC) that they are up-to-date and fit to practise and that they are complying with the relevant professional standards. It applies to all doctors with a licence to practise on the GMC register, including those i...

Knowledge and skills

Revalidation

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Review of Quality and Outcomes Frameworks (QOFs) in England – consultation response

We responded to NHS England in 2018 welcoming the opportunity for improving the QOF and describing its potential to improve the quality of care for children and young people.

Primary care

Service design

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Safe system framework for children at risk of deterioration

This framework aims to improve recognising and responding to children at risk of deterioration. A safer system can work in partnership with families and patients, develop a patient safety culture and support ongoing learning.

Quality improvement

Patient safety

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S.A.F.E. Toolkit Module 2 - Theories of patient safety and application to the programme

In our second module, we look at the theories that underpin the development of a patient safety culture, including some tools and techniques for assessing your culture and working to improve it.

Quality improvement

Patient safety

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S.A.F.E. Toolkit Module 4 - Team perspectives

S.A.F.E teams have shown how the huddle can enable healthcare professionals to communicate effectively, and recognise and respond to the deteriorating child in a timely way. Once the intervention has been implemented, teams have also evaluated their work. This has allowed them to evidence the succes...

Quality improvement

Patient safety

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Safety-netting information following a first seizure without a fever in children and young people

These high quality leaflets provide information to parents and carers of children and young people who have had a first seizure that was not considered to be a ‘febrile convulsion’, as well as children and young people themselves.

Community child health

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Situation Awareness for Everyone (S.A.F.E) toolkit- introduction

How can we reduce preventable deaths and error in children's hospitals? We worked with 50 sites over four years on the S.A.F.E. programme to develop and trial quality improvement techniques. This toolkit supports child health professionals to use these principles at their sites. It can help improve ...

Quality improvement

Patient safety

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Standardising intravenous infusion concentrations in children in the UK

The Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG), with support from the Royal College of Paediatrics of Child Health (RCPCH) has produced a proposal for a national approach for standardised intravenous infusion concentrations in children.

Drugs and medicines

Patient safety

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Statutory Duty of Candour for Northern Ireland - consultation response

In August 2021, we responded to the Department of Health Northern Ireland's proposal for a statutory Duty of Candour and Being Open Framework. The RCPCH broadly welcomes an organisational Duty of Candour, but we believe that an additional, individual Duty would be cumbersome, duplicative, and dispro...

Quality improvement

Patient safety

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Revalidation - licence to practise requirements for RCPCH designated roles and other roles

Revalidation and appraisal

Review of Quality and Outcomes Frameworks (QOFs) in England – consultation response

Safe system framework for children at risk of deterioration

S.A.F.E. Toolkit Module 2 - Theories of patient safety and application to the programme

S.A.F.E. Toolkit Module 4 - Team perspectives

Safety-netting information following a first seizure without a fever in children and young people

Situation Awareness for Everyone (S.A.F.E) toolkit- introduction

Standardising intravenous infusion concentrations in children in the UK

Statutory Duty of Candour for Northern Ireland - consultation response

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