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Invited Reviews Service - how a review can help and our processes

The �� Invited Reviews Service delivers clinically-led expert reviews to healthcare organisations when they need independent, objective expert advice and external assurance on the clinical services and quality of care they provide. We aim to provide a safe space for active listening. We suppo...

Paediatric sub-specialty

Quality improvement

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Facing the Future - acute general paediatric services

Facing the Future - emergency care

Integrated care

Invited reviews

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Child Protection Service Delivery Standards Audit - report

Our nationwide audit collected data from services across the UK responsible for conducting child protection medical assessments within working hours. The audit aimed to encourage best practice in service delivery, and provide the data needed to support quality improvement activity in this area. Read...

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�� responds to the progress report of Northern Ireland's review on waiting lists

27 October 2022

The Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) has published her one year-on progress report to More Than a Number: A Rights Based Review of Child Health Waiting Lists.

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Workforce Census 2022 - Full report

The Workforce Census provides insight into the current working life of consultants and SAS doctors in the UK. Here, we present findings from the Census and a set of key recommendations.

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�� publishes summary analysis of data collected on the standards of emergency care for children and young people

6 September 2022

�� has published a summary analysis that offers a view of the standard of emergency care for children and young people in the two years before the start of the pandemic.

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Progress+ implementation plan - what clinical directors need to know

Progress+ is our updated, two-level training programme, live as of summer 2023. This implementation plan for clinical directors and leads summarises the key issues and opportunities for the delivery and organisation of training, including rota availability. It's available as a document and as presen...

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Service planning

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Induction to newborn resuscitation: standards of practice

Each Neonatal Department providing a service in attending deliveries of newborns should have an induction programme for new staff that includes basic newborn resuscitation principles and skills.

Neonatal medicine

Service design

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Review of Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Northern Ireland- consultation response

�� welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Department of Health’s Review of Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Northern Ireland consultation in June 2022. This sets out the proposed strategic priorities in response to the Urgent and Emergency Care Review Report, which initially launched in ...

Facing the Future - emergency care

Models of care

Service planning

Document

Facing the Future: Standards for children and young people in emergency care settings - audit findings

This is a summary of audit findings reported by 91 emergency departments from 2018 to early 2020, based on our Facing the Future standards in emergency care settings, which were published in 2018. These audit findings provide an insight into how emergency care settings were delivering services a...

Emergency medicine

Service design

Facing the Future - emergency care

Workforce

News

�� comments on national care service bill Scotland

22 June 2022

On 21 June 2022 the Scottish Government published the National Care Service Bill. The Bill as written allows Scottish Ministers to transfer social care responsibility from local authorities to a new, national service.