Quality improvement

RCPCH QI Central is our dedicated website to quality improvement in child health, sharing QI projects and posters in medicines, safety, patient-centred care and systems of care

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Diabetes Quality Programme - resources

We worked with organisations in England and Wales to improve outcomes for children and young people with diabetes. This page provides guidance and resources for the Programme's participants and other clinicians involved in the delivery of paediatric diabetes care.

Diabetes

Quality improvement

News

Getting It Right First Time for the child health workforce

22 August 2019

The RCPCH is joining forces with Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), to get a snapshot of the neonatal and general acute workforce on two given days in September.

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Epilepsy12 & OPEN UK National Conference 2019 resources

On 17 June 2019, more than 150 health professionals working in support of paediatric epilepsy services and patient organisation representatives came together at the second Epilepsy12/OPEN UK National Conference with the aim of learning from each other and improving the care offered to children and y...

Neurodisability

Neurology

Quality improvement

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Diabetes Quality Programme - who we are

This programme ran from April 2018 to March 2023. The staff team was supported by a range of stakeholders across England and Wales.

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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Diabetes Quality Programme - Peer review

As part of the Quality Assurance stream of the programme, all participating Paediatric Diabetes Units received a peer review. A multidisciplinary team of peers spoke with the service team, relevant colleagues, patients and families to determine compliance against the standards and to identify areas ...

Diabetes

Quality improvement

Service design

Networks for health services

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Diabetes Quality Programme - Self-assessment and External Verification

Each participating paediatric diabetes unit (PDU) provided an annual self assessment against the Programme measures. This informed the peer review visit and enabled PDUs and the programme to track and report on progress and identify common areas for improvement.

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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Diabetes Quality Programme - Quality Improvement Collaborative

Our QI Collaborative supported multidisciplinary teams over a nine-month training programme to share processes and develop new models of care to improve health outcomes.

Diabetes

Quality improvement

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RCPCH EQIP - Epilepsy Quality Improvement Programme

The RCPCH Epilepsy Quality Improvement Programme (EQIP) ran from June 2019 to 2024 as the first paediatric epilepsy QI collaborative in England and Wales. It supported epilepsy service teams in England and Wales to identify and implement sustainable improvements within their services for children an...

Engaging children and young people

Quality improvement

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We all have a stake in research and evidence generation - it makes a difference

28 May 2019

As your new VP for Science and Research, Nick introduces his own journey into child health research and what we are doing to increase research capacity and build evidence for improving care.

News

Worrying lack of children’s doctors in Wales could damage health of future generations, say medical experts

10 May 2019

Our new report says the current workforce must expand, with an increase of 42% consultant paediatricians, to deliver the appropriate standards of care to children and young people.