Dr James Fraser
Professional Advisory Group Chair
Dr James Fraser is Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and Chair of the Professional Advisory Group at the National Child Mortality Database. He established early child death audit processes in the South West, was the first Designated Doctor for Child Death in the West of England, and taught on the Warwick child death review course. In 2018 he co-authored Statutory Guidance for Child Death and the service specification for the NCMD.
At a national level he has been President of the Paediatric Critical Care Society, on the council of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and advised NHS England on policy matter relating to child death.
His interests relate to child death, bereavement, palliative care, and ethics.