Paediatric pathology in unexpected child deaths
Allitt Inquiry · The Allitt Inquiry Report · Issued 11 February 1994 · Addressed to: Department of Health and Social Care
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
We recommend that the provision of paediatric pathology services be reviewed with a view to ensuring that such services be engaged in every case in which the death of a child is unexpected or clinically unaccountable, whether the post mortem examination is ordered by a Coroner or in routine hospital practice (para 4.2.16)
Allitt Inquiry, The Allitt Inquiry Report · 11 Feb 1994 Source PDF →
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