Table 2 Potential ways that the impact of child death reviews may be enhanced at local and national level
From: How useful are child death reviews: a local area’s perspective
Policy level | Example |
|---|---|
Local area | |
Education and training programmes for local workforces | General Practitioner (GP) protected learning time to include updates on e.g. care of the unwell child |
Quality of care/commissioning | Setting up incentive payments for services to identify alcohol misuse in families; or, identifying areas for future audits e.g. haemoglobinopathy management |
Governance forums and systems | Link learning to serious incident reviews, mortality and morbidity meetings in hospitals |
Improving surveillance | Enhanced data collection and sharing in Emergency departments on youth related violence |
National or regional level | |
Simpler data collection forms | Produce a shortened version of the form B |
Guidance on neonates and how best to learn | Advice on the types of neonates that are not likely to need full panel review |
National surveillance and review of findings to inform policy | Inform the Healthy Child Programme and other policies e.g. housing |