Audit 2024
- 17 trusts/ providers took part
- 746 clinical encounters captured and analysed
- 74% reported CYP weighed at encounter
- 62% reported CYP measured at encounter
- 71% report height and weight was plotted on growth chart
- 66% reported OFC was plotted if indicated
- 29% reported no resources for weighing or measuring physically disabled CYP at encounter
- 8% reported no resource for weighing or measuring neurodiverse CYP at encounter
View BACD News article progress report (Oct 2024)
Participating Trusts/ Providers:
- Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- NHS Tayside
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Southern Health & Social Care Trust
- South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Audit 2023
- 16 trusts/ providers took part
- 770 clinical encounters captured (554 fully analysed)
- 74% reported CYP weighed
- 63% reported CYP measured
- 4% had not been weighed at encounter or in last 6 months
- 81% report height and weight was plotted on growth chart
- 81% reported inadequate equipment or staff training for weighing or measuring physically disabled CYP
- 25% reported no resource for weighing or measuring vulnerable or neurodiverse CYP
View e-Poster presented at RCPCH Conference 2023
Participating Trusts/ Providers:
- Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- NHS Tayside
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
- Solent NHS Trust
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Solent NHS Trust
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
