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Searchable by paediatric condition and specialty areas, the Guideline Directory contains quick links to national clinical guidelines.

If you have a guideline that you would like to be included, please contact us. Please note that all guidelines need to be developed in accordance with our manual, Setting Standards for Development of Clinical Guidelines in Paediatrics and Child Health.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) accredited the ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ guideline development process as a mark of quality between 2006 and 2024 before closing its accreditation programme in July 2024.

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• (NICE NG253, 2025)
• (NICE guideline, NG252 2025)
• (NICE, NG250 2025)
•  (NICE QS110 update 2025) 
• (NICE CG57 update 2025)
• (NICE NG237 update 2025)
•  (NICE, QS212, 2025)
• (NICE, CG150, 2025)
• (CCLG, 2024) - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement 
• (NICE NG247, 2025)
• (NICE NG246, 2025)
• Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) in infants, children and adolescents (AoMRC, 2025)
• Retinopathy of prematurity: Screening (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ, revised 2024)
• (BTS, NICE, SIGN, NG245)
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

ADHD

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Alcohol-related disorders

Allergy, immunology and infectious disease

• (NICE NG243, 2024)
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• (NICE CG57 update)
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• 8a (NICE PH21, updated 2017)
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Antenatal care

Antibiotics

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Antimicrobial

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• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)

Asthma

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Attachment

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Audiology

Autism spectrum disorders

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Back pain

Bipolar disorder

Bronchiolitis

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Cerebral palsy

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Chronic fatigue syndrome

• Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome: diagnosis and management (NICE NG206, 2021)

Cleft palate

• Palate examination: identification of cleft palate in the newborn - best practice guide (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ, 2015, in process of updating)

Coeliac disease

Conduct disorder and antisocial behaviour

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Constipation

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

CPR

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Cystic fibrosis

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Dental

Depression

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Dermatology

• (NICE CG57 update 2025)

Development

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Diabetes

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
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Diarrhoea and vomiting

Donor breastmilk

Early years

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Eating disorders

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement

Eczema

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE CG57 update 2025)

Emergency medicine

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

End of life care

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Endocrinology

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• (CCLG, 2024) - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement 
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•  - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement
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• (CCLG, 2023) - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement 

Epilepsy

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Fever

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Fractures

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Gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)

General paediatrics

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement 
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG73, updated 2024)

Genetic and metabolic disorders

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement

Haematology

Head injury

•  - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement 
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Headache

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE, CG150, 2025)

Hepatitis

Hypercholesterolaemia (familial)

Infection prevention

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)

Infectious diseases

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)

Infective endocarditis

Injury prevention

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Intensive care

Intravenous fluids

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Jaundice

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Learning disabilities

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Meningitis / meningococcal sepsis

•  disease: recognition, diagnosis and management (NICE NG240, 2024)
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG253, 2025)

Menstrual bleeding

• (NICE NG73, updated 2024)

Mental health

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
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Musculoskeletal

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)

• Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome: diagnosis and management (NICE NG206, 2021)

Neonatology

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) in infants, children and adolescents (AoMRC, 2025)
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
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• Palate examination: Identification of cleft palate in the newborn (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ, 2015)
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement
• Retinopathy of prematurity: Screening (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ, revised 2024)
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Nephrology

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement
• (UKKA, 2023) - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)
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Neurology and neurodisability

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
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• Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) in infants, children and adolescents (AoMRC, 2025)
• (CCLG, 2024) - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement 
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE, CG150, 2025)
•  - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• Management of children and young people with an acute decrease in conscious level (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ, updated 2019)
• (NICE guideline, NG252 2025)
• Stroke in childhood: clinical guideline for diagnosis, management and rehabilitation (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ, 2017)
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Nutrition

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG247, 2025)
• (NICE NG293, 2024)

Obesity

• (NICE NG246, 2025)
• (NICE, QS212, 2025)
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Oncology and haematology

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (CCLG, 2024) - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement 
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG253, 2025)

Ophthalmology

• Retinopathy of prematurity: Screening (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ, revised 2024)

Orthopaedics

Pain

Palliative care

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Personality disorder

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Pharmacology

• Medication safety: Best practice for effective paediatric ward rounds (Clinical Practice Guideline, ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ/NPPG Joint Standing Committee on Medicines, 2023) 

Pollution

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Postnatal care

Pressure ulcers

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Psychosis

PTSD

Public health

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
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• (NICE QS140, 2023)

Respiratory

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE, NG250)
•  (NICE QS110 update) 
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG237 update)

Safeguarding

•  - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement 
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• Physical signs of child sexual abuse (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ, 2015)
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal endorsement

Sedation

Self-harm

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Sepsis

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG253, 2025)

Sexual abuse

• Physical signs of child sexual abuse - evidence-based review (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ, 2015)

Sexualised behaviour

Sickle cell disease

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Smoking

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Spasticity

Spinal injury

Stroke

• Stroke in childhood: clinical guideline for diagnosis, management and rehabilitation (¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ, 2017)

Substance misuse

Surgery

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support

Transition to adult services

Transplantation

Tuberculosis

Urology

• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)
• - ¹ú²ú×ÔÅÄ formal support