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

Volunteering opportunity

Influence and contribute to new paediatric clinical guidelines and quality standards

It is essential that paediatricians and other child health professionals contribute to and shape the development of child health clinical guidelines, both from RCPCH and from other organisations like NICE. This page lists current and forthcoming consultations and detail on how to get involved.

Clinical guidelines and standards

Continuing professional development

Paediatric sub-specialty

Quality improvement

Basic page

About the Epilepsy12 audit

Established in 2009, Epilepsy12 has the continued aim of helping epilepsy services and those who commission health services, to measure and improve the quality of care for children and young people with seizures and epilepsies. Round four is underway.

Clinical guidelines and standards

Adolescent health

Infant health

Quality improvement

Basic page

About the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA)

The NPDA collects information on the care and diabetes outcomes of all children and young people receiving care from paediatric diabetes teams in England, Wales and Jersey and reports an annual core dataset. The sole aim is to provide information that leads to an improved quality of care for thos...

Clinical guidelines and standards

Resource

Doctor's pocketbook for talking to young patients about mental health

Developed by our summer intern Papia (age 17) in 2016, this tool shows young people's expectations for consultations with their doctors.

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

Wellbeing for children and young people

Quality improvement

Resource

National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) - transparency and open data

NPDA collects data from paediatric diabetes units from across England, Wales and Jersey and reports annually. This page has information about the data collection process and analysis, our privacy statements and data protection impact assessment and how you can access NPDA data for research.

Team profile

Children & Young People Engagement team

Committee

Clinical Quality in Practice Committee

Originally established as the Quality of Practice Committee in 1996 to oversee the RCPCH Clinical Effectiveness Programme and to act as the College's 'guardian' for setting standards for paediatric practice, this committee supports the development, dissemination and promotion of clinical guidelines,...

News

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.

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Meds IQ - sharing QI resources for paediatric medicines safety

Medication errors are a significant but preventable cause of harm to children and young people. Meds IQ brings together quality improvement (QI) tools and improvement projects that have been developed to address this problem. This is part of QI Central, our quality improvement sharing platform, whic...

Drugs and medicines

Quality improvement

Patient safety

Resource

Quality improvement in child health framework - supporting the delivery of high quality care

This strategic framework details how the College will support, educate and develop paediatricians and the wider child health workforce to deliver high quality care for infants, children and young people - and so reduce the number of preventable deaths and improve their experience of healthcare.

Quality improvement