Digital Growth Charts

To support the drive to digitise healthcare we have, for the first time ever, developed an API to accurately calculate centiles for a child’s height, weight, head circumference and BMI for digital growth assessments. Guidance, support and links for developers and health professionals are available.

Introducing RCPCH Digital Growth Charts

Innovative digital-clinical tool

The first digital growth chart solution endorsed by the RCPCH, developed in partnership with a range of respected experts in growth monitoring.

Designed to bring high-quality growth parameter calculations to every clinician at the point of care. This tool provides the full functionality to plot and monitor child growth covering height, weight, head circumference and BMI.

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Why the College has developed this product

Technology and standards

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Key features

UK-WHO standard growth charts
Specialty charts: Down Syndrome and Turner Syndrome
Precise, validated centile and SDS score calculation for children of all ages capturing height, weight, head circumference and BMI
Easy one-touch plotting to save time on your current method of child measurements
Fully customisable look and feel – providing accurate, reliable and interactive charts
Corrected/Chronological age with toggle
BMI SDS lines
SDS charts
Event logging - events associated with measurements
Bone ages
Midparental heights with midparental centile lines (at +2 and -2 SDS)
Life course view (toggle between a view constrained to measurements and the full life course)
Zoom with Zoom reset
Dates included in tooltips
Toggle between advice strings aimed at clinicians or those aimed at families/children & young people
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Interested? How to contact us

First, contact your IT team to connect with the provider of your electronic patient record system in your organisation. Then speak with us?

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News, blogs and resources about our digital growth charts

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New features on Digital Growth Charts

On 23 June 2022, RCPCH hosted a live demonstration to highlight new features on the RCPCH Digital Growth Charts platform. Dr Simon Chapman led this session to outline core features and capabilities, mostly aimed at clinicians to improve user experience. You can watch the video here.

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Digital Growth Charts - an update from the development team

In early February 2021, we hosted a webinar to share information on the RCPCH Digital Growth Charts API (application programming interface). This will support the drive to digitise healthcare and provide accurately calculated centiles for height, weight, head circumference and BMI. Catch up by watch...

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Why we chose Python for the RCPCH Digital Growth Charts project

30 January 2021

When Dr Marcus Baw and colleagues set out to develop a new API for growth charts, they knew they'd have pick a technology with which to build a server. But which to choose? Here's why Python is the best programming language for this project.

Knowledge and skills

Digital growth charts