Information for professionals
“The commitment and enthusiasm of CDOPs in particular means that the NCMD is a powerful tool in our arsenal to reduce child deaths”
Vicky Sleap, NCMD Manager
Information for families
CDR guidance
Category of death: Clarifications
Find below details of how CDOPs and CDR professionals can help our analysis by ensuring consistent recording of the category of death, as follows: Category 5, Acute medical or surgical condition - should include sudden unexpected deaths with epilepsy (SUDEP). These...
CDR statutory form changes, April 2021
In response to feedback from CDOPs and other stakeholders, we are pleased to advise of improvements to CDR statutory forms as implemented in eCDOP and the NCMD portal, which are live from 1 April 2021. Developed in partnership with QES, these updates are designed to...
Reporting form flowchart
Reporting forms: A resource for CDOPsWe have produced a flowchart to support CDOPs and CDR professionals to know who should receive reporting forms under different circumstances. To see it online, click here:
Webinars
Dissemination event: NCMD second annual report
Tuesday 22 June 2021, 1-2pm (online) Hosted by NCMD’s Programme Lead, Professor Karen Luyt, this event will highlight the key findings from our second annual report, which is based on child death data from April 2019 to March 2020. Professor Luyt will also share...
Deprivation report: Findings shared at online event
Child Mortality and Social Deprivation, 18 May 2021 Many thanks to everyone who attended our dissemination event to share insights from our Child Mortality and Social Deprivation report, which took place on 18 May 2021 - an unprecedented 365 people from across the...
Supporting a robust CDR (and the impact of maternal charges)
Webinar, 20 May 2021We were extremely moved by the presentations given by our guest speakers at NCMD's May webinar (and we know from the comments given during the session, that many participants felt the same). Greenwich CDOP Chair and GP, Dr Nikesh Parekh, and...
Safety notices
‘Super strong’ magnets
Please share this information as widely as possible to help raise awareness of this issue... The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), the UK’s national product safety regulator, has issued a Safety Alert to warn of the risk of serious injury and death from...
Baby sling safety
The T.I.C.K.S rule for safe baby sling wearing from the Consortium of UK Sling Manufacturers and Retailers (UK Sling Consortium) is a useful reminder of the key factors to take into account when using baby slings. They provide the following advice for baby sling...
Postnatal care/bed sharing (NICE guideline)
We welcome the final guideline from the National institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on postnatal care, which was published to their website on 20 April 2021. With supporting evidence, tools and a range of resources for professionals supporting families...
Publications
Blog: “The value of short lives”
By NCMD's Manager, Vicky Sleap. 42% of child deaths occur in children under 28 days of age; this equates to just over 52 primary school classrooms. I was very excited last week about the publication of our second annual report, as it shows the value of strong and...
NEW: NCMD second annual report published
Analysis of child deaths, 2019-20. NCMD’s second annual report is based on data for children who died from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 in England, providing analysis of the 3,347 children who died in that period – which equates to approximately 28 child deaths for...
REPORT: Child Mortality and Social Deprivation
The risk of child death in England linked to deprivation. This report, which is based on data for children who died between April 2019 and March 2020 in England, finds a clear association between the risk of child death and the level of deprivation (for all categories...
Further resources
Statutory information
For families
- When A Child Dies leaflet
- Information from the NHS, Learning From Deaths
- NCMD postcard for families
- Information from Sands about neonatal death
- Information from Lullaby Trust on sudden and unexpected death
- More for families from NCMD
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