Partnership

Co-authored or co-created with other organisations

Event

Patient safety from the start: a World Patient Safety Day webinar hosted by RCPCH and NIHR PSRC Network (SafetyNet)

17 September 2025

Celebrating the theme of “safe care for every newborn and child”, this free webinar is for everyone involved in any aspect of paediatric healthcare. Aligning with WHO's efforts to raise awareness, mobilise, and advocate for stronger research in this area, it asks the question, ‘What are the challeng...

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National Reviews of Maternity and Neonatal Care: Supporting the perinatal team to implement recommendations - report

This report, originally published in June 2023 and revised in August 2023, offers guidance to help local and network perinatal teams in implementing recommendations from the national reviews of maternity and neonatal care. It covers four themes: family experience, neonatal workforce, safety and lear...

Neonatal medicine

Quality improvement

Resource

Enteral calcium and phosphate supplementation in neonates and children - position statement

This statement is produced by Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG), with support from RCPCH. There are no licensed oral liquid calcium or phosphate products available in the UK. Administration of an effervescent calcium or phosphate tablet is common, and this statement provides guidance for...

Document

Asthma &Me Ambassadors

This is a group of asthma experienced or interested children, young people and families who volunteer together to improve care for asthma patients and their families. Here they introduce their award-winning project and what they've been doing this year!

Respiratory medicine

Asthma

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

Resource

Screening of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) - clinical guideline

ROP is one of the few causes of childhood visual disability that is largely preventable. This evidence-based guideline is by RCPCH in collaboration with Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) and British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM), published in 2022 and revised in October 2024. ...

Neonatal medicine

Perinatal medicine

Clinical guidelines and standards

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...

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Meeting the mental health needs of children and young people in acute hospitals: these patients are all our patients

The pandemic has exacerbated already existing pressures on services caring for children and young people presenting with mental ill health. Regardless of where children and young people present to care or what their specific health needs are, we must work together to ensure they receive the highest ...

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Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition UK National Census 2021 - report

This report, published jointly by the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN) and RCPCH, highlights the main findings and recommendations identified through an audit of the provision of paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition services for infa...

Resource

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

Document

BPSU-PHE Symposia series: COVID-19 from a Paediatric Perspective – recordings

More than 2,000 people joined one or both of these free events in late April 2021. Discussions covered the impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy, neonates and general paediatric populations and the rare syndrome, PIMS, as well as the wider impact of the pandemic on child health. If you missed the opportun...

BPSU

Rare disease

Public health