Quality Network for In-Patient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (QNIC)

Corporate origins, affiliations, memberships	Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for Quality Improvement
Objectives	To demonstrate and improve the quality of inpatient CAMHS and coordinating information sharing between units, e.g. regarding best practice.
Scope and focus of programme	In-patient child and adolescent mental health units in the UK and internationally.
Products and services	A set of service standards for in-patient CAMHS A system of self-review and external peer-reviews Support for the local implementation of national policy as identified in the standards. Reports for each member service, highlighting areas of achievement and areas for improvement. A national "benchmarking" service to allow the units to compare their activity and performance with all other units. The co-ordination of information sharing between units, e.g. regarding best practice, via network newsletter, email discussion group and annual forum. An In-patient CAMHS Directory Lead Reviewer Training A web based service to support the collection of clinical outcome measures and analysis of the data.
Standards	QNIC Standards are available to download on the website
Web-site	http://www.qnic.org.uk
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