Epilepsy12: UK Pediatric Epilepsy Service Audits for 2024

Round 4 Cohort 6 of the Epilepsy12 audit, published in 2025, reports on the organization and clinical care for children and young people with suspected epileptic seizures in England and Wales. The clinical audit focuses on patients who had a first pediatric assessment for a paroxysmal episode between December 2022 and November 2023. The audit is delivered by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking pediatric epilepsy service organization across England and Wales based on the national audit structure.
• Analyzing clinical care standards for first-time pediatric assessments based on the defined patient cohort.
• Evaluating temporal trends in epilepsy care delivery based on the multi-round audit framework.

Strengths

• Data is part of a national clinical audit commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership and funded by NHS England and the Welsh Government.
• Clinical audit focuses on a specific cohort of patients with assessments between 1 December 2022 and 30 November 2023.
• The audit program has a defined timeline, extended to run through 31 March 2027.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to uk_data.

Provenance

Source

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership.

Collection Method

National organisational and clinical audit.

Time Range

Organisational data described as of November 2024; clinical data for patients assessed between 1 December 2022 and 30 November 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-19 14:13:36.123474; freshness should be verified

Geography

England and Wales