A quality checklist to Benchmark your service against 7 Quality Standards and assess your progress in meeting the recommended standards for health play services in England. Although not yet adopted by the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Norther Ireland, health play services across the UK are welcome to use this tool.
This audit process will help you to monitor and evaluate your service, to reflect on your achievements and identify areas of improvement.

The Tool Kit has been designed to be used across a wide range of healthcare environments including community clinics, emergency departments, hospices and acute paediatric wards or wherever therapeutic play is delivered.
The Interactive Excel version of the audit tool will automatically log your progress and populate your self-assessment data into an action plan. For those who prefer a paper-based approach, there is a PDF version available to download.

For further information about the Play Well Toolkit, click here.

Other Practice Guidance Documents to support your practice and service development are available via the links below.

  • Click here for the Play Well Promise

    A statement to demonstrate your organisation’s commitment to play in healthcare.
    SoHPS recommends this is adopted by and displayed in your setting.

    “We recognise all children’s right to play as part of the best possible healthcare. All our staff working with children understand the importance of play to their care, and we also employ specialised health play staff. We want our health play services to be of the highest possible quality and are committed to adopting and implementing the recommended standards”.
    NHSE

Play Well and other Practice Guidance Documents