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Patient safety

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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Safety for all – reflections on how we could help our members

13 September 2024

How can we make sure safety for all is core to our work with children, young people and their families? Dr Emma Vittery, new QI Fellow at RCPCH, highlights our expert resources and invites members to join our future QI Community.

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Medication safety: Management of the supply of unlicensed liquid medicines to children - recommendations for implementation

NHS England tasked the RCPCH/NPPG Medicines Committee to improve the safety of liquid medicines during the transition from hospital to home care. This follows several serious incidents, including the death of a child due to confusion over liquid morphine strengths. Mistakes can occur because of t...

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22 February 2024

NHS England has announced the rollout of ‘Martha’s Rule’ in selected hospitals from April 2024.

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Valproate use in women, girls of childbearing years and boys - guidance

This page has updated guidance on the medicine, valproate in accordance with regulation changes from the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in January 2024.

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Patient safety podcast 4 - Involving children, young people and their families

31 January 2024

Children and young people must be central to the co-design and co-production of patient safety improvement interventions. In this episode, we hear from Dr Victoria Dublon and Dr Jane Runnacles, champions of improvement work that puts the young person and their needs first.

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Patient safety podcast 3 - How do we improve how we learn from harm?

24 January 2024

It is not enough to collect data on harm occurring to children in healthcare settings. We need the data to be robust, comparable across the NHS and for it to be transformed into effective, meaningful changes in outcome. In this episode, we speak with Professor Damian Roland.

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Patient safety podcast 2 - If we are psychologically safe, children are safer in our care

17 January 2024

Our second episode in this series focuses on psychological safety in healthcare settings. This is the condition in which you feel safe to learn, safe to contribute and safe to challenge the status quo. Featuring Dr Dal Hothi and Dr Jess Morgan.

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Patient safety podcast 1 - How can we build a culture of safety in paediatric healthcare?

10 January 2024

Doctors should 'First, do no harm', but harm is occurring in our healthcare settings. In this series, we speak with leaders in the field on challenging and thought-provoking issues around keeping our children safe in healthcare settings. This first episode features Dr Peter Lachman on patient safety...

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Patient Safety Portal - our website for theory and resources on paediatric patient safety

Our website features the theory and resources of patient safety, including the science of human factors and ergonomics and how to a safe culture. It also has latest alerts and reports on adverse events.

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Medication safety: Best practice for effective paediatric ward rounds - clinical practice guideline

Published in December 2023, this clinical practice guideline developed by RCPCH and the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group Joint Standing Committee on Medicines (RCPCH-NPPG), covers the inclusion of medication analysis in the paediatric ward round environment to improve medication safety.

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