Neonatal medicine

Neonatologists are paediatric specialists whose expertise is looking after newborn infants or those born prematurely. Find out more about this sub-specialty.

Course

BSAC Paediatric OPAT Workshop

04 September 2025

London

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) allows for medically stable patients to be discharged (or avoid admission completely) who require a course of intravenous antimicrobial agents. OPAT is a vital scheme that can prevent hospital admissions, reduce a patient’s length of stay in hospita...

Area of medicine

General paediatrics

Intensive care medicine

Course

RCPCH Webinar: Assessment of jaundice in Black, Asian and ethnic minority babies

10 July 2025

In this webinar, delivered in collaboration with the NHS Race & Health Observatory, Dr Ngozi Edi-Osagie, Kylie Watson, Dr Helen Gbinigie and Deborah King will discuss the challenges and advancements in recognising and managing jaundice in babies with darker skin tones, including the rising prevalenc...

Resource

NNAP Data Assurance Webinar: Checking and validating your 2024 data

In January 2025, the National Neonatal Audit Programme at RCPCH hosted this webinar to support those responsible for quality assuring their neonatal units' 2024 NNAP data.

Neonatal medicine

Data

Resource

NNAP webinar recording: Key findings and national recommendations from the 2023 Summary Report

This webinar, recorded in October 2024, reviewed the key findings and national recommendations from the National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) 'State of the nation' summary report on 2023 data.

Neonatal medicine

Data

Resource

NNAP Online: Report Data

The National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) aims to help neonatal units improve care for babies and their families by identifying areas for quality improvement in relation to the delivery and outcomes of care. NNAP Online: Report Data is a reporting tool which provides access to audit results f...

Area of medicine

Neonatal medicine

Data

Document

National Neonatal Audit Programme - Summary report on 2023 data

This report summarises the key messages and national recommendations developed by consensus by the NNAP Project Board and Methodology and Dataset Group, based on NNAP data relating to babies discharged from neonatal care in England, Wales, Scotland and Isle of Man between 1 January and 31 December 2...

Neonatal medicine

Clinical guidelines and standards

Quality improvement

Neonatal Update - Young Investigator Award 2024 [OPEN]

The award is aimed at young investigators transitioning to or having just achieved independent researcher status. Applicants may be clinical or non-clinical.

Award programme/theme

Starter grant / pilot grant

Submission deadline

31 July 2025

Document

Our campaign for an RSV vaccination programme

Following our open letter signed by over 2,000 paediatricians and healthcare professionals, the UK government and devolved administrations have confirmed the delivery of two new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programmes, for older adults and during pregnancy for infant protection. Rea...

Public affairs and campaigning

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