Quality improvement

News

RCPCH responds to Nuffield Council on Bioethics review of disagreements in the care of critically ill children

8 December 2022

On Thursday 8 December, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics announced it has been commissioned by the Department for Health and Social Care to conduct an independent review of the disagreements that arise between families and healthcare teams in the care of critically ill children.

Course

How to Manage: Refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people - online course

07 June 2023

This course aims to increase awareness, knowledge, skills and confidence to assess and manage the health needs of accompanied and unaccompanied refugee and asylum-seeking children (AURASC) across medical settings.

Wellbeing for children and young people

Resource

NNAP webinar recording 23 November 2022: Helping teams to improve care

This joint National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) and British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM) webinar provided an opportunity to review the NNAP 2021 data results, learn from one service's successfully implemented QI initiative and find out about the new BAPM Building Successful Perinatal...

Neonatal medicine

Quality improvement

News

Cymru: Paediatric research in Wales

23 November 2022

Officer for Wales Dr David Tuthill, reflects on our recent College Strategy 2021-24 podcast episode, which is about research and why it matters to child health.

Event

Checking and validating your NNAP data: what you need to know - webinar

01 February 2023

Join the National Neonatal Audit Programme team and guests for this free, one-hour webinar to support those entering and quality assuring their NNAP data. You'll learn about why we ask you to validate your data for certain metrics and how to do it. You'll have a chance to put questions to the NN...

Quality improvement

News

Child health research matters to medicine

10 November 2022

In this two-part episode we feature Emily Arkell, Director of Quality Improvement and Professor Paul Dimitri, Vice President for Science and Research. They discuss the importance of research to clinical practice in child health and the added training benefits.

Document

National Neonatal Audit Programme Summary report on 2021 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 January and December 2021, unless otherwise stated...

Neonatal medicine

Quality improvement

Document

Child Protection Service Delivery Standards Audit

We are launching a nationwide audit to provide a comprehensive understanding of the extent to which service delivery standards for conducting child protection medical assessments are implemented across the UK, and to explore whether current service delivery infrastructure supports teams to meet thes...

Basic page

RCPCH Conference 2023 - Abstract submission guidelines

The RCPCH Conference Organising Committee is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the 2023 Conference, which will take place from 23 to 25 May in Glasgow. These guidelines include what to consider, structure and content of the astract, references, consent, author listings and review proces...

Quality improvement

Research

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RCPCH Conference 2023 - How to submit an abstract and other FAQs

The RCPCH Conference Organising Committee is pleased to invite abstract submissions for oral and poster presentation at our next Conference, which takes place from 23 to 25 May in Glasgow. The deadline to submit an abstract is Monday, 6 February, 23:59 (GMT). Below are frequently asked questio...