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community patients were admitted to the acute inpatient setting. We therefore audited the standards relating to inpatient care which included the need to record the cause of neurodisability on admission, on daily ward rounds and at discharge, recording of a child's mobility, communication and if a child had a handheld patient record (or if one was recommended). Methods We retrospectively audited 30 children admitted over a 1 year period, randomly selecting 10 elective admissions, 10 emergency admissions with short stay spells (<24 hours) and 10 longer term emergency admissions (>24 hours). Baseline data is shown in the table 1. Our short-term interventions following baseline data collection included delivering teaching to all ward doctors about the children with neurodisability & why these aspects of care were important to record and attaching a prompt sheet to notes trolleys. A re-audit of 10 patients over the next 2 months (limited numbers due to reduced summer admissions) showed improvement in all areas. Results Conclusions Our short term intervention, which did not require any hospital committee approval or funding, showed significant improvement in our documentation towards the NCEPOD standards allowing us to better support these families. We have also designed a proforma for medical notes which is in the process of going through health records approval and will be re-audited once introduced.