Click on the image below to download your copy of the CRANE Newsletter August 2026 Issue.

The issue includes information on:

• Collaborations and Publications
• Database Update & 2026 Indicators
• CFSGBI 2026
• Key Dates in 2026/27

The Newsletter has been emailed to all our known contacts at services that provide cleft care in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. If you would like to be added to our Newsletter mailing list, please contact us.

Click on the image below to download your copy of the CRANE Newsletter January 2026 Issue.

This issue includes information on:

• Annual Report 2025
• New CRANE Information Leaflets
• 2025 Palate Examination Guide
• 2026 ‘Making it Better’ webinar
• CRANE Database updates
• Key dates in 2026

The Newsletter has been emailed to all our known contacts at services that provide cleft care in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. If you would like to be added to our Newsletter mailing list, please contact us.

The Cleft Registry and Audit NEtwork (CRANE) Database has published its 2025 Annual Report.

This report and its supplementary materials present results from the registry and audit of children born with cleft lip and/or cleft palate in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

The Cleft Registry and Audit NEtwork (CRANE) is a national registry and clinical audit run by the Clinical Effectiveness Unit (CEU) of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS).

If you have any queries about this report or this programme of work, please contact us.

For more information about the CRANE Database, please visit our FAQs for professionals and the public.

The Cleft Registry and Audit NEtwork (CRANE) Database has published its first ever Organisational Audit Report.

This report presents the results of an Organisational Audit of cleft services across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Click on the front cover of the report below to download your copy. Scroll down to download information supplementary to the report.

Click on the button below to see the Organisational Audit Questionnaire.

CRANE Database 2025 Organisational Audit Questionnaire

For more information about CRANE, please visit our Resources page and our FAQs for professionals and the public.

If you have any queries about these materials or this programme of work, please contact us.

Published 18 July 2025

Click on the image below to download your copy of the CRANE Newsletter July 2025 Issue.

This issue includes information on:

• The Organisational Audit (OA) Report
• Update on CRANE Team
• Summary on the recent and upcoming conferences
• OBE Award
• Key dates and deadlines for 2025

The Newsletter has been emailed to all our known contacts at services that provide cleft care in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. If you would like to be added to our Newsletter mailing list, please contact us.

Click on the image below to download your copy of the CRANE Newsletter February 2025 Issue.

This issue includes information on

• The 2024 Annual Report
• Summary of findings for patients and parents/carers, written in collaboration with
  CLAPA
• Details on CRANE Local Action Plan 2024
• the ‘Making it better’ webinar session held in January
• Database updates
• Key dates and deadlines for 2025
• A recent peer-review publication

The Newsletter has been emailed to all our known contacts at services that provide cleft care in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. If you would like to be added to our Newsletter mailing list, please contact us.

The Cleft Registry and Audit NEtwork (CRANE) Database has published its 2024 Annual Report.

This report and its supplementary materials present results from the prospective audit of children born with cleft lip and/or cleft palate between 2001 and 2023, in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

The Cleft Registry and Audit NEtwork (CRANE) is a national registry and clinical audit run by the Clinical Effectiveness Unit (CEU) of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS).

If you have any queries about this report or this programme of work, please contact us.

For more information about the CRANE Database, please visit our FAQs for professionals and the public.

Click on the image below to download your copy of the CRANE Newsletter October 2024 Issue.

This issue includes information on

• 2025 Workshops and Webinars
• CLAPA – CRANE Q&A
• A new look for the CRANE Database
• CRANE Annual Check
• Key Dates
• 2025 Timeline

The Newsletter has been emailed to all our known contacts at services that provide cleft care in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. If you would like to be added to our Newsletter mailing list, please contact us.

Click on the image below to download your copy of the CRANE Newsletter July 2024 Issue.

This issue includes information on

• Publications and Collaborations
• Database Updates
• Key Dates
• 2025 Timeline
• Workshops and Webinars

The Newsletter has been emailed to all our known contacts at services that provide cleft care in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. If you would like to be added to our Newsletter mailing list, please contact us.

Click on the image below to download your copy of the CRANE Newsletter April 2024 Issue.

This issue includes information on

• CRANE virtual workshops
• Registering children with a Tessier cleft
• CRANE 2024 Annual Report: Important information reflected in Live Tables behind the log-in
• Other key dates and deadlines for 2024

The Newsletter has been emailed to all our known contacts at services that provide cleft care in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. If you would like to be added to our Newsletter mailing list, please contact us.