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Quality improvement and patient safety

We support our members and the wider child health workforce to be at the forefront of continuous quality improvement, providing opportunities to develop and share QI work and co-produce solutions with children and young people, and their families.
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QI Central

Our quality improvement website features many resources and examples of interventions in patient-centred care, medicines and systems of care.
Visit QI Central
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Patient Safety Portal

Our patient safety website covers theory and resources on the science of human factors and ergonomics and building a safe culture, plus alerts on adverse events.
Visit Patient Safety Portal
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Medicines for Children

Our website for parents and carers has free, practical and reliable information about giving medicines to their child, including helpful videos.
Visit Medicines for Children
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Patient safety

In our podcast series from January and February 2024, we spoke with leaders on the challenging, thought-provoking issues around keeping our children safe in healthcare settings.

We've collaborated with NHS England and Royal College of Nursing on a single national Paediatric Early Warning System, or PEWS. This is part of the NHS programme, System-wide Paediatric Observations Tracking, or SPOT.

Our patient safety podcasts
On SPOT and PEWS

Further QI resources

Engaging children and young people - resources
Progress+ curriculum resources for QI and patient safety
QI: how to make services work better for you and your patients - eLearning
Safe system framework for children at risk of deterioration
Situation Awareness for Everyone (S.A.F.E) toolkit
Clinical Quality in Practice Committee

Quality programmes (now completed)

Epilepsy Quality Improvement Programme (EQIP)
National Diabetes Quality Programme
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Invited Review Service (IRS)

Invited reviews are there when healthcare organisations need independent, objective expert advice and external assurance on their clinical services and quality of care.
About our service

Clinical audits

Our audits aim to improve care and health outcomes for babies, children and young people, including epilepsy, diabetes and neonatal services, as well as on child protection.
About our clinical audits

How we're building a culture of continuous improvement

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Blog
24 February 2025

On Martha's Rule - patient safety spotlight

By establishing patients' right to an independent review, this new rule now being tested in pilot sites across the country, can improve our ability as health professionals to recognise and respond to deterioration. We look at what this means for infants, children and young people.
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Blog
11 December 2024

From Groundhog Day to growth - patient safety spotlight

What does the annual HSJ Patient Safety Congress, where health professionals discuss current and future challenges in safety improvement, mean for children, young people and their families and for those working in paediatrics? Jonathan Bamber, Head of Quality Improvement and Dr Emma Vittery, QI Fell...