Every year, the ATP collects data from practitioners to help build a national picture of known risks and complications associated with frenulotomy procedures in infancy.

Participation is open to both private and NHS services.

The information is compiled from data submitted by our members and presented in comparable graphs, alongside the annual summaries below. This data helps guide how we as individual release providers communicate with families about the evidence and risks related to the procedure. Families rely on this shared information when we are discussing risks to the procedure.  Therefore, it is important that as many practitioners as possible contribute. High participation ensures our discussions reflect real-world experiences and allow us to provide families with balanced, reliable information.

It is good practice for individual members to be aware of their own statistics to be able to provide accurate information to the families you consent to the surgical procedure too; the ATP is asking that the same data is shared anonymously to us. This information can be used by our members for their own statistics but also for your benchmarking purposes, CQC (or your equivalent regulatory body) may request to see your statistics at your inspection and could be considered to be an NMC requirement too-‘Prioritising safety’. Families  viewing the ATP website may also find it beneficial in their decision making prior to attending a consultation.

To help collate your data it is suggested that members monitor their data at regular intervals against the common factors/questions which then is submitted annually in the first quarter of each year, for presentation at our AGM, to allow for annual comparisons.

As an optional support, tools to collate data are found below, alongside the current set of questions.

We are open to adding in additional questions for the year ahead should you have a specific interest in a particular topic, if so please contact adverseevents@tongue-tie.org.uk for consideration.

ATP members will be updated by email when the audit team is ready for your submissions

Thank you