Setting and raising standards Goal: Ensure high standards of evidence-based training, assessment, education, clinical practice and service provision.
‘We said we would create educational programmes for enhancing the delivery of children’s services – we did’ The RCPCH has a responsibility to set and raise
for the treatment of children in emergency settings,
standards across paediatrics and child health.
was published in 2012. Other publications include
Last year the College developed a new range of
‘Consultant Delivered Care’, ‘Safeguarding 2012:
programmes and resources, published useful
Views from the frontline’ and revalidation supporting
guidance and standards, and audited service
information guidelines for paediatricians. The College
provision across the UK in order to achieve this.
continues to respond to consultation drafts of clinical
A number of key resources were produced to
guidelines and standards.
support practitioners and develop competence.
In order to examine current provision of care for
Five new events programmes and e-learning courses
children and young people, the RCPCH published
included the How to Manage series, Child Protection:
‘Facing the Future’, outlining 10 minimum standards
From Examination to Court and the Healthy Child
for acute, general paediatric care. In 2012 the College
Programme. Other courses continue to be wellreceived, with 140,000 sessions of the Safeguarding Children and Young People e-learning course completed by the end of August 2012. Alongside the delivery of learning programmes, the RCPCH has published a range of guidance and standards to promote best practice and support practitioners, both in paediatric training and the wider field of child health. A revised edition of ‘Standards for Children and Young People in Emergency Care Settings’, which set out the minimum requirements
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conducted an audit of these standards. The RCPCH now aims to build on the progress made with ‘Facing the Future’ to support local service providers in finding the solutions to the challenges that they face. Pass rates across all MRCPCH examinations have remained relatively stable. Along with an overall 5% increase in pass rates, the MRCPCH Clinical exam saw improved pass rates (increase of 10%) for overseas graduates taking the exam in the UK.