Learning from others: Resources
Discover resources from the paediatrics and improvement community across categories including QI education, patient safety, patient centred care, systems of care, sustainable healthcare and medicines safety.
If you’ve completed a QI project and would like to share a written piece about it on this website under Spotlight Projects, please email us at qips@rcpch.ac.uk. We are looking for areas including background, what you did in terms of intervention and measurement, findings, implications, and anything interesting that might support others. Email us and we will get back to you with an outcome.
Types of resources
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Spotlight projects
Read projects and case studies on service improvement, patient safety, family centred care, neonatal care, diabetes care, epilepsy care, sustainability and medicines safety.
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Patient centred care
Patient experience and the voices of children and young people, ensuring that the care we provide is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences and needs.
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Systems of care
Ensuring quality within our systems of care looking at improving efficiency to avoid waste, effective integration of services and QI educational approaches for child health professionals.
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Medicines
Resources and projects to support improvement in paediatric medicines safety, including education for families.
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Safety
RCPCH Patient Safety Portal is our dedicated website to all things related to patient safety. Explore patient safety theory, learn about the NHS patient safety syllabus, share ideas for QI and get summaries of the latest alerts and reports.
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Featured resources
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Integrated Care
The NHS Long Term Plan has emphasised the importance of integrated care to the future of the health service. This section looks at case examples and resources for delivering integrated care in paediatrics and child health.
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Children and Young People’s Engagement
RCPCH &Us tools to support trainees, paediatricians and healthcare professionals working with children and young people to drive service improvement.
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Sustainable Healthcare
The World Health Organization has described climate change as “the defining health challenge of our time”. This section looks at improvement work on environmental sustainability and the principles of sustainable healthcare.
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Safe System Framework
A safer system can work in partnership with families and patients, develop a patient safety culture and support ongoing learning to aim to improve recognising and responding to children at risk of deterioration.
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