Paediatrics
Recommendations related to paediatrics
Tag overview
recommendation across 2 inquiries
Across 2 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
Age-Appropriate Hospital Settings
Health and Social Care ('HSC') Trusts should publish policy and procedure for ensuring that children and young people are cared for in age-appropriate hospital settings.
Senior Paediatric Responsibility
Senior paediatric medical staff should hold overall patient responsibility in children's wards accommodating both medical and surgical patients.
Foundation Doctors in Children's Wards
Foundation doctors should not be employed in children's wards.
Clinician Competence Assessment
The experience and competence of all clinicians caring for children in acute hospital settings should be assessed before employment.
Consultant Notification on Admission
A consultant fixed with responsibility for a child patient upon an unscheduled admission should be informed promptly of that responsibility and kept informed of the patient's condition, to ensure senior …
Bedside Display of Responsible Staff
The names of both the consultant responsible and the accountable nurse should be prominently displayed at the bed in order that all can know who is in charge and responsible.
On-Call Consultant Display
The names of all on-call consultants should be prominently displayed in children's wards.
Senior Lead Nurse in Children's Wards
To ensure continuity, all children's wards should have an identifiable senior lead nurse with authority to whom all other nurses report. The lead nurse should understand the care plan relating …
Consultant-Led Ward Rounds
Children's ward rounds should be led by a consultant and occur every morning and evening.
Nurse Attendance at Clinical Interactions
The accountable nurse should, insofar as is possible, attend at every interaction between a doctor and child patient.
Parental Knowledge in Care Plans
Clinicians should respect parental knowledge and expertise in relation to a child's care needs and incorporate the same into their care plans.
Trust Awareness of Duty of Candour
Trusts should ensure that all healthcare professionals are made fully aware of the importance, meaning and implications of the duty of candour and its critical role in the provision of …
Paediatric Fluid Management Training
HSC Trusts should ensure that all nurses caring for children have facilitated access to e-learning on paediatric fluid management and hyponatraemia.
Paediatric Communication Training
Clinicians caring for children should be trained in effective communication with both parents and children.
Children's Healthcare Governance
All Trust Boards should ensure that appropriate governance mechanisms are in place to assure the quality and safety of the healthcare services provided for children and young people.
RQIA Compliance Review Powers
Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority ('RQIA') should review overall compliance and consideration should be given to granting it the power to prosecute in cases of serial non-compliance or serious and …
Deputy CMO for Children's Healthcare
The Department should appoint a Deputy Chief Medical Officer with specific responsibility for children's healthcare.
Audit maternity and paediatric services
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust should audit the operation of maternity and paediatric services, to ensure that they follow risk assessment protocols on place of delivery, …