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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 RCPCH 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, CG150, 2025)
• (CCLG, 2024) - RCPCH 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 (RCPCH, revised 2024)
•  (NICE NG51, updated 2024) published 2024
• (BTS, NICE, SIGN, NG245)
• [NG148] updated 2024
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• I (UKKA, 2023) - RCPCH formal endorsement
• - RCPCH formal endorsement

ADHD

• - RCPCH formal support

Alcohol-related disorders

Allergy, immunology and infectious disease

• (NICE NG243, 2024)
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• 8a (NICE PH21, updated 2017)
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support

Antenatal care

Antibiotics

• - RCPCH formal support

Antimicrobial

• - RCPCH formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)

Asthma

• - RCPCH formal support

Attachment

• - RCPCH formal support

Audiology

Autism spectrum disorders

• - RCPCH formal support

Back pain

Bipolar disorder

Bronchiolitis

• - RCPCH formal support

Cerebral palsy

• - RCPCH 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 (RCPCH, 2015, in process of updating)

Coeliac disease

Conduct disorder and antisocial behaviour

• - RCPCH formal support

Constipation

• - RCPCH formal support

CPR

• - RCPCH formal support

Cystic fibrosis

• - RCPCH formal support

Dental

Depression

• - RCPCH formal support

Dermatology

Development

• - RCPCH formal support

Diabetes

• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support

Diarrhoea and vomiting

Donor breastmilk

Early years

• - RCPCH formal support

Eating disorders

• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal endorsement

Eczema

• - RCPCH formal support

Emergency medicine

• - RCPCH formal support

End of life care

• - RCPCH formal support

Endocrinology

• - RCPCH formal support
• (CCLG, 2024) - RCPCH formal endorsement 
• - RCPCH formal support
•  - RCPCH formal endorsement
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal endorsement
• (CCLG, 2023) - RCPCH formal endorsement 

Epilepsy

• - RCPCH formal support

Fever

• - RCPCH formal support

Fractures

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Gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition

• - RCPCH formal endorsement
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)

General paediatrics

• - RCPCH formal endorsement
• - RCPCH formal endorsement 
• - RCPCH formal support
• (NICE NG73, updated 2024)

Genetic and metabolic disorders

• - RCPCH formal endorsement

Haematology

Head injury

•  - RCPCH formal endorsement 
• - RCPCH formal support

Headache

• - RCPCH formal support
• (NICE, CG150, 2025)

Hepatitis B

Hepatitis C

Hypercholesterolaemia (familial)

Infection prevention

• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal endorsement
• - RCPCH formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)

Infectious diseases

• - RCPCH formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)

Infective endocarditis

Injury prevention

• - RCPCH formal support

Intensive care

Intravenous fluids

• - RCPCH formal support

Jaundice

• - RCPCH formal support

Learning disabilities

• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support

Meningitis / meningococcal sepsis

•  disease: recognition, diagnosis and management (NICE NG240, 2024)
• - RCPCH formal support

Menstrual bleeding

• (NICE NG73, updated 2024)

Mental health

• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support

Musculoskeletal

• - RCPCH formal endorsement

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)

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

Neonatology

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

Nephrology

• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal endorsement
• (UKKA, 2023) - RCPCH formal endorsement
• - RCPCH formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)
• - RCPCH formal support

Neurology and neurodisability

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

Nutrition

• - RCPCH formal support
• (NICE NG247, 2025)
• (NICE NG293, 2024)

Obesity

• (NICE NG246, 2025)
• - RCPCH formal support

Oncology and haematology

• - RCPCH formal support
• (CCLG, 2024) - RCPCH formal endorsement 
• - RCPCH formal support

Ophthalmology

• Retinopathy of prematurity: Screening (RCPCH, revised 2024)

Orthopaedics

Pain

Palliative care

• - RCPCH formal support

Personality disorder

• - RCPCH formal support

Pharmacology

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

Pollution

• - RCPCH formal support

Postnatal care

Pressure ulcers

• - RCPCH formal support

Psychosis

PTSD

Public health

• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• (NICE QS140, 2023)

Respiratory

• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support

Safeguarding

•  - RCPCH formal endorsement 
• - RCPCH formal support
• Physical signs of child sexual abuse (RCPCH, 2015)
• - RCPCH formal endorsement

Sedation

Self-harm

• - RCPCH formal support

Sepsis

• - RCPCH formal support

Sexual abuse

• Physical signs of child sexual abuse - evidence-based review (RCPCH, 2015)

Sexualised behaviour

Sickle cell disease

• - RCPCH formal support

Smoking

• - RCPCH formal support

Spasticity

Spinal injury

Stroke

• Stroke in childhood: clinical guideline for diagnosis, management and rehabilitation (RCPCH, 2017)

Substance misuse

Surgery

• - RCPCH formal support

Transition to adult services

Transplantation

Tuberculosis

Urology

• - RCPCH formal support
• - RCPCH formal support
• (NICE NG112, updated 2024)
• - RCPCH formal support