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Updated guidance on valproate use in women and girls of childbearing years is published

14 December 2020

This guidance, updated in December 2020 and endorsed by ��, has been produced to inform all healthcare professionals of best practice around the use and prescribing of valproate. It supports them to navigate situations that could arise as a result of prescribing valproate to women during childbea...

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Young people win a national award for epilepsy quality improvement

27 November 2020

The Epilepsy12 Youth Advocates have been selected as joint winners in the HQIP Audit Heroes Awards 2020 in the Volunteer of the Year Category, recognising their hard work to support improvements in epilepsy care.

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Why do I volunteer?

16 October 2020

Dr Yincent Tse is Lead for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement on the �� Quality Improvement Committee and joint ��/NPPG Medicines Committee. He recently completed his term as Secretary for the British Association for Paediatric Nephrology, and Deputy Head of School for North East and North...

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Epilepsy12 - pedal with purpose!

30 September 2020

Dr Colin Dunkley, Consultant Paediatrician and Clinical Lead for Epilepsy12 tells us about the recent report on the clinical and organisational aspects of epilepsies care for children and young people in England and Wales.

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A snapshot of general paediatric and neonatal services: benchmarking for improvement and recovery

25 September 2020

Two new reports have been released outlining the findings of a snapshot survey of the UK's general paediatric and neonatal services and workforce in September 2019. The reports provide a pre-COVID benchmark and give recommendations to government, service planners and other decision makers about how ...

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How we delivered the National Diabetes Quality Programme

27 August 2020

Dr Andrea Srur, Programme Manager for the national Diabetes Quality Programme, describes the recent successes from this project and the challenges presented by the COVID-19 outbreak.

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What has COVID-19 told us about the future of paediatrics?

26 June 2020

�� today publishes its first report from Paediatrics 2040, a major project looking at how paediatrics will change over the next 20 years.

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Research and quality improvement during COVID-19

26 May 2020

Prof Nick Bishop, VP for Science and Research, outlines some of the key developments in the College's Research & Quality Improvement Division, recognising ongoing work despite the disruptions to members' schedules. He also discusses research on the effects of COVID-19 on child health and wellbeing.

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Medicines safety alert – apraclonidine use in infants below six months of age

17 March 2020

The ��/NPPG Medicines Committee has recently been informed of a severe adverse reaction in a six-month old child with anisocoria who had been administered apraclonidine 1% to help exclude Horner syndrome.

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UK in danger of failing a generation of children and young people, says new report

4 March 2020

The �� has today published State of Child Health 2020, the largest ever compilation of data on the health of babies, children and young people across all four UK nations. The report shows that for many measures of children’s health and wellbeing, progress has stalled, or is in reverse – something...