News and updates

The NCMD team is delighted to announce that Anna Freud has joined our programme. We are pleased to announce that children’s charity Anna Freud has joined the NCMD Programme. As the newest partner in the NCMD programme, Anna Freud will join quality improvement experts...

On 17 January 2023 the UK Parliament held a debate on sudden, unexplained deaths in childhood (SUDC) – the first time this issue has ever been formally discussed in Westminster. The historic meeting, which was led by The Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng, followed the publication...

The National Child Mortality Database is delighted to announce that we have won a commendation in this year's Richard Driscoll awards. The Richard Driscoll Memorial Award 2022 is awarded each year by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership to recognise...

A new report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Baby Loss finds that staffing shortages are having significant impacts across services provided before and during birth and the neonatal period including bereavement care. The report, which quotes the NCMD...

The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) has established a new LinkedIn group for child death review professionals. The new group, the first of its kind, gives professionals involved in child death review the opportunity to come together, share ideas and...

A new editorial published today in the BMJ and co-authored by the NCMD warns that NHS charging for maternal care could contribute to health inequalities and neonatal and maternal mortality. The new editorial explains the current system, whereby women who are not...

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...

New article in Public Sector Focus on NCMD’s thematic report on Child Mortality and Deprivation

Featuring a presentation by NCMD’s Programme, Professor Karen Luyt, this event highlighted the key findings from the NCMD second annual report.

An online event will be held on 22 June to disseminate the findings from our second annual report.