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The national confidential enquiry programme into child health commenced in 2004.
The overall aim of this enquiry is to improve the health for children aged between 28 days and up to 18 years. The enquiry seeks to do this by identifying patterns of practice or service provision related to adverse outcomes, which could include death or morbidity and which may be avoidable. The child health enquiry thus builds on the maternal and perinatal programmes and expands its enquiry work beyond the neonatal period.
An open topic invitation/selection process was undertaken in late 2004/5. The selected topics from this process were an overview of all child deaths and unintentional injury. In respect to the latter topic, this was subsequently focused into a project on head injury in children.
The child death review (2006) was completed with the report ' Why Children Die: A Pilot Study' in May 2008 and the next CMACE children project head injury in children currently underway.
Topic selection for the child health enquiry project to follow head injury has commenced. The process for deciding on national confidential enquiry project is described more full in Prioritisation and Topic Selection.
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