Child death review processes in paediatric intensive care units: a national survey of practice against statutory and operational guidance
In 2018, Her Majesty’s Government published statutory and operational guidance setting out how children’s deaths are reviewed in England, aiming to ensure practice is standardised and review of each child’s death is of uniform quality. Objective A national survey of paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) to review the implementation of the statutory guidance. Design Online survey exploring child death review (CDR) practices against expected operational standards across three domains: (1) Logistics and administration of the CDR process, (2) the CDR meeting and (3) communication with bereaved families. Results 19/21 (91%) English PICUs, 1/1 Welsh and 1/1 Northern Irish PICUs responded to the survey request. 6/21 PICUs reported no remuneration for their CDR work. 18/21 reported routinely notifying the local child death overview panel of a child death within 48 hours as per statutory guidance. 8/21 (38%) achieved the current National Health Service England quality outcome target of holdin
