NCEPOD Surgery In Children 2011 report to launch in London

This year's Surgery in Children Study report - from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death project (NCEPOD), now managed and commissioned by HQIP - is set to launch on Thursday 27 October with a full-day event at The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Entitled ‘Are We There Yet?', the event will discuss the findings of NCEPOD's latest study which explored remediable factors in the process of care of children less than 18 years of age, including neonates who died within 30 days of surgery on the same admission.

The meeting will be chaired by Bertie Leigh, Chairman of NCEPOD. Speakers include Professor Terence Stephenson, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health and Professor of Child Health at the University of Nottingham; Dr Ann Hoskins, Regional Director of Public Health/Director of Children, Young People and Maternity Services in the North West; Su-Anna Boddy, Chair of the Children's Surgical Forum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

The entry fee is £65 and full details, including booking forms, can be found here.

The Medical and Surgical Clinical Outcome Review Programme is provided by NCEPOD and  is one of the four Clinical Outcome Review Programmes (CORP), commissioned by HQIP on behalf of the Department of Health and devolved administrations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. These are managed at HQIP by Jenny Mooney and more details for CORP can be found here.