Summary

Since April 2019, it’s been mandatory for Child Death Review (CDR) Partners to input data on all child deaths into the National Child Mortality Database. This data is analysed at the University of Bristol to inform strategic improvements in health and social care for children. Compiling and analysing this data helps to understand how child deaths can be reduced on a national level.

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NCMD is the World’s first truly national child mortality database, collecting, reporting on and analysing data on all child deaths aged 0-18. This is a significant leap forwards in making a crucial difference to the safeguarding and healthcare

of children, learning from deaths and using this vital information to prevent and reduce child mortality. During the Covid-19 pandemic, NCMD are able to share real-time data with NHS England and Public Health England to better understand the virus and inform actions to combat Covid-19 on a national level.

QES are the technical providers of the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD), and all data that is inputted into our intuitive eCDOP system is automatically transferred into NCMD. The NCMD is a collaborative project, in partnership with University of Bristol, University of Oxford, UCL Partners and commissioned by Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) on behalf of NHS England. NCMD has been developed with the aim to review the deaths of all children to identify what can be learnt, and reducing mortality in England.