The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has been
awarded a major contract by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) to
carry out a review of mortality and morbidity in children and young
people aged 1-18 years.
This new Child Health Clinical Outcomes
Review programme will run in partnership with the University College
London (UCL) Institute of Child Health and will involve:
* A retrospective analysis of antecedents and trends in child mortality using existing data collected by hospitals
* Confidential in depth case reviews to help improve the care of sick children
Neena
Modi, Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London and Vice
President, Science and Research, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child
Health, who led the successful application said: "The RCPCH is honoured
to be selected to build on the excellent work initiated by the Centre
for Maternal and Child Enquires (CMACE). Children are the nation's
future and the RCPCH is committed to improving the care they receive and
their health outcomes. We are delighted to be partnering with the
Institute of Child Health and working with parents, children and young
people and a wide range of stakeholder organisations on this important
programme. We will also be working closely with the National Perinatal
Epidemiology Unit and collaborators who were awarded the Maternal and
Newborn Clinical Outcomes Review Programme."
Ruth Gilbert,
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Centre for Evidence-based Child
Health, UCL Institute of Child Health said: "We are linking existing
data from death certificates and the whole record of hospital admissions
for a child to understand what proportion of deaths
occur in healthy
children, and in what proportion there is evidence of serious
underlying disease, disability or other problems. We hope this study
will advance understanding of the contribution of chronic health
problems to child deaths and will help to identify where care might be
improved."
Dr Jenny Kurinczuk, National Perinatal Epidemiology
Unit, University of Oxford and Lead, Maternal and Newborn Clinical
Outcomes Review Programme, MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk
through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK), said: "We are
delighted we will be working closely with colleagues from the Royal
College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Institute of Child
Health who were awarded the new Child Health Clinical Outcomes Review
Programme. Linking the methods and findings from the new two programmes
will have important benefits for the health of children of all ages."
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