Resources
“Brilliant, I really like the format – an ‘at a glance’ visual picture of our completed reviews” CDOP Co-ordinator (Data Monitoring Reports)
NCMD hosts a range of resources for CDOPs and other health and social care professionals working in Child Death Review (please note that information for bereaved families can be found here)…
Publications
Latest publications and reports:
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...
Child death review data release 2021
This data release covers child deaths notified and reviewed between 2020 and 2021, and gives readers an opportunity to explore comprehensive child death review data for themselves. The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) was notified of 3,068 child deaths in...
Blogs
Latest blogs:
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...
Maternal NHS charging: A threat to maternal and neonatal health
by Dr Nikesh Parekh Public Health Medical Associate and CDOP Chair, Royal Borough of Greenwich and GP, Seaford Medical Practice. Neonatal deaths represent 42% of all child deaths in England. These deaths are not inevitable, but while many countries are making progress...
The value of short lives: Why we must learn what we can from every child death
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...
NCMD for families
“One of the things you want most when your child dies is learning so that another parent doesn’t go through the same devastating experience,” bereaved mother
NCMD for professionals
