NCMD Programme, Author at National Child Mortality Database

Working together to better serve children with a learning disability

In this NCMD webinar participants will learn more about how child death reviews can support children with a learning disability.

Which children are most vulnerable to serious Covid infection? Risk factors for intensive care admission and death among children hospitalised with Covid [Nature]

Nature Medicine first published this paper, based on unique NCMD data, which identifies the children and young people most vulnerable to serious infection with Coronavirus by examining hospitalisations and deaths in England from February 2019 to January 2021.Which...

The NCMD’s impact in 2021

This report explores the impact of the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) programme in 2021. 2021 was a special year for the NCMD. Though the programme began in 2018, 2021 was the first year that we had sufficient data to begin sharing learning to fulfil our...

In their own words: Putting bereaved parents at the heart of hospital reviews

Sarah and Andrew Malm went through a hospital review process in 2010 following the death of their son Rudy, pictured, who died shortly after birth.by Charlotte Bevan, Senior Research and Prevention Advisor at Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity. A newborn...

Child mortality in England during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic [BMJ]

This paper, published in BMJ’s Archives of disease in Childhood, investigates overall child mortality during the pandemic. Using the National Child Mortality Database’s unique data, it shows that child mortality in the first year of the pandemic was lower than it had...

Child suicide rates during the Covid-19 pandemic in England [Elsevier]

This paper, published in Elsevier’s Journal of Affective Disorders, uses the National Child Mortality Database’s unique data to show that overall child deaths by suicide did not increase during the Covid-19 pandemic – though there is some evidence that they were...

Child deaths in England after Covid-19 infection during the first pandemic year [Nature]

This paper, published in Nature Medicine and based on National Child Mortality Database data, shows that in the first year of the pandemic, 25 children and young people in England died of Covid-19.In the first year of the pandemic, between March 2020 and February...

Covid deaths in children: What impact has the pandemic had on child mortality?

by Professor Karen Luyt Programme Lead for the National Child Mortality Database and Professor of Neonatal Medicine at the University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. Here at the National Child Mortality Database we’re often...

Suicide in Children and Young People report launch

NCMD Programme Lead Professor Karen Luyt shares key findings from the Database's second thematic report, which found that 108 children and young people are likely to have died by suicide between April 2019 and March 2020. The session covers the following: Children and...

Covid deaths in children rare, new study of NCMD data shows

Update 25 November 2021 It has been brought to our attention that this paper has been covered by a number of media outlets using headlines that minimise the deaths of children. Every child death is a tragedy, and we have reached out to the newspapers concerned to ask...

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