University of Bristol – coming soon.

Rob Taylor, Managing Director, QES:

I am tremendously pleased to be working with all our partners on this exciting NCMD system. It’s a challenging design and development project that we have no blueprint, as it’s the first of its kind. My colleagues and I are proud of the NCMD system we have provided to date and also look forward to being involved with its evolution over the coming years.

Dr Charlie Davie, Managing Director, UCL Partners:

We’re proud to be working in partnership with Bristol and Oxford Universities and QES on this seminal work programme. The development of this National Child Mortality Database and the use of the intelligence it will produce will enable us identify modifiable care factors, spread learning, and support a reduction in child death in our local population and nationally.

Katie Koehler, Assistant Director of Bereavement Services and Education, Child Bereavement UK:

Child Bereavement UK is delighted to be part of the steering group for the NCMD development project which will gather information about children who die before the age of 18 years. Child Bereavement UK supports families and educates professionals when a baby or child of any age dies and, working alongside our colleagues on the NCMD project, we aim to represent the families we work with to ensure the project progresses with the needs of children and families at its centre, with the ultimate important aim of learning vital lessons to help reduce potentially avoidable child deaths.

Sands is thrilled that the NCMD is taking off. We were part of the consultation process to establish the database, and are now working with the steering group, putting parents’ voices at the heart of work. The death of a child is a life-lasting tragedy for parents; that tragedy is compounded when we do not learn what we can from deaths. The NCMD will make vital learning to save future lives a possibility.