Patient safety

RCPCH Patient Safety Portal is our dedicated website to all things related to patient safety. Explore patient safety theory, learn about the NHS patient safety syllabus, share ideas for QI and get summaries of the latest alerts and reports.

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RCPCH Progress+ domain resources: Patient safety and quality improvement

Quality improvement (QI) needs to encapsulate all aspects of patient care - not just the clinical experience but service development, review and evaluation. These resources can help you ensure your practice prioritises patient safety and that it strives to improve the experiences and outcomes of you...

Paediatric training

Quality improvement

Patient safety

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RCPCH response to Court of Appeal ruling on Hadiza Bawa-Garba case

13 August 2018

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba's appeal against the decision to strike her name from the medical register.

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Healthcare professional bodies publish full response to hyponatremia inquiry report

31 May 2018

The membership bodies representing paediatricians, surgeons, anaesthetists and pathologists, have today published a joint response to Justice O’Hara’s report on hyponatremia related deaths in Northern Ireland.

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National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) - data submission

We are now accepting data submissions for the 2026–27 audit year on the NPDA platform. We encourage all units to continue submitting data on a quarterly basis throughout the audit year. The 2025–26 audit cycle has now closed. The data submission deadlines for each quarter are listed on this pa...

Endocrinology

Community services

Diabetes

Clinical guidelines and standards

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About the National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP)

The NNAP supports professionals, families and commissioners to improve care provided by neonatal services who look after babies born too early, with a low birth weight or who have a medical condition requiring specialist treatment.

Child and adolescent mortality

Intensive care medicine

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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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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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Consultation response to Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future: A draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027

26 March 2018

The RCPCH has submitted a response to Health Education England’s consultation Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future: A draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027.

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RCPCH response to high court ruling on Hadiza Bawa-Garba case

26 January 2018

The RCPCH recognises the substantial impact that decisions by the General Medical Council and the High Court have on medical professionals. This case is tragic for all involved, the child, the family, a nurse and a doctor. The case has also engendered anxiety, anger and bewilderment.

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Reflective practice and reducing risk in healthcare

5 December 2017

Doctors, and indeed all healthcare staff, are committed to delivering high quality, safe care and avoiding errors. But when errors do occur, as they will on occasion, it is crucial to reflect, understand why the mistake happened and do everything possible to prevent a similar occurrence again.