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This framework aims to improve recognising and responding to children at risk of deterioration. A safer system can work in partnership with families and patients, develop a patient safety culture and support ongoing learning.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Responding to the CQC’s Children and young people’s inpatient and day case survey, Dr Mike Linney, Children and Young People’s Lead at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said:

We respond to the CQC State of Care report, published in October 2017.