Endorsed

Course

Southampton Sleep Training Modular Programme

Healthy sleep underpins child health and wellbeing. Knowledge of sleep disorders is often limited amongst professionals working with children due to limited teaching in undergraduate and post-graduate curricula. This is despite the fact that sleep disorders place considerable strain on families and ...

Area of medicine

Course

Paediatric SCRIPT

Paediatric SCRIPT is an eLearning programme, which aims to improve prescribing competency and safety among specialist paediatric trainees. It is now being used by all Paediatric Schools in England.

Drugs and medicines

Patient safety

Course

European Paediatric Advanced Life Support (EPALS) course

EPALS is an advanced course that trains healthcare professionals in the early recognition of the child in respiratory or circulatory failure and management of a cardiac arrest. EPALS provides the knowledge and skills needed to prevent further deterioration and help to save young lives.

Area of medicine

Care setting

Document

Administration of rectal diazepam to neonates and infants to treat seizures prior to hospital admission - position statement

This guidance is for ambulance services which need to administer diazepam, a medicine for treating seizures, to neonates and infants. It explains how to accurately administer a 1.25mg or 2.5mg dose directly from a 5mg rectal tube. Buccal midazolam is usually preferred to rectal diazepam in the ho...

Resource

Electronic discharge summary within 24 hours - PRSB eDischarge summary

This page provides a best practice example for standard 7 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines guidance developed by the Professional Records Standards Body on standards for organising information on discharge. This is a key component of improving patient safety ...

Primary care

Secondary care

Service design

Facing the Future - care outside the hospital

Models of care

Service planning

Product

Health for all Children 5th Edition

Textbook cover: Health for all Children, fifth edition, edited by Alan Emond

Fully revised and updated in February 2019, this critical review takes a life course approach. It looks at the evidence supporting child health programmes in the UK with recommendations for clinicians, providers and commissioners.

Resource

UK standards for paediatric endocrinology (BSPED)

These standards apply to all children and young people aged 0-18 years with an endocrine condition (including growth, hormonal, bone and mineral disorders). They are intended for healthcare professionals and for service commissioners to plan, deliver and quality assure paediatric endocrine services.

Resource

Medusa - NHS Injectable Medicines Guide

The NHS Injectable Medicines Guide, commonly referred to as Medusa, is an online resource accessible via the internet or through an organisation’s intranet. Medusa provides guidance on the preparation and administration of injectable medicines in adult and paediatric clinical areas. It also serves a...

Drugs and medicines

Resource

Recognition and early management of meningococcal disease in children and young people

Meningococcal disease (MD) remains an important cause of mortality in children in the UK. This handbook presents discussion and learning points from clinical case histories, a background to MD, and information on making a diagnosis, pathophysiology and principles of management.

Neurology

Research