Development

In 2012, listening to both parents and health professionals, the baby charity Sands recognised the need to improve and standardise the quality of hospital reviews of baby deaths. Together with the Department of Health they set up a working group of both health professional experts as well as parents who'd experience of bereavement and hospital review, to decide what should be done. The idea of a standardised Perinatal Mortality Review Tool was developed by the group, with government support.

The PMRT was developed during 2017 and released in January 2018. Funded by the Department of Health (England) and the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Governments, the tool is free to all NHS maternity and neonatal units in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The PMRT tool is wholly integrated within the MBRRACE-UK programme of work.

The PMRT was designed and will be further developed with user and parent involvement to support high quality standardised perinatal reviews on the principle of 'review once, review well'. The individuals involved in the original development of the PMRT are listed below.

Members of the original PMRT development working groups

Julie-Clare Becher

Consultant Neonatologist, Department of Neonatology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Charlotte Bevan

Senior Research and Prevention Officer, Sands (stillbirth and neonatal death charity)

Thomas Boby

MBRRACE-UK/PMRT Senior Programmer, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford

Malli Chakraborty

Consultant in Neonatal Medicine, Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

Katy Evans

Maternity Matron, Women and Children's Directorate Governance Lead, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Taunton

Meg Evans

Consultant Perinatal Pathologist, Department of Pathology, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

David Field

Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester
Perinatal Programme Co-lead MBRRACE-UK

Charlotte Gibson

Consultant Midwife, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Alex Heazell

Professor of Obstetrics and Director of the Tommy's Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester

Tracey Johnston

Consultant Obstetrician, Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham

Sara Kenyon

Professor in Evidence Based Maternity Care, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

Jenny Kurinczuk

National Programme Lead MBRRACE-UK, Professor of Perinatal Epidemiology, Director, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford

Karen Luyt

Consultant Senior Lecturer in Neonatal Medicine, University of Bristol and University Hospitals of Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol

Kirsteen Mackay

Dr Kirsteen Mackay, Consultant Neonatologist, Jessop Wing, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Helen McElroy

Consultant Neonatologist, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Kent

David Millar

Consultant Neonatologist, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast

Miguel Neves

MBRRACE-UK/PMRT Programmer, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford

Santosh Pattnayak

Consultant Neonatologist, Lead for Kent Neonatal Transport Service Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Kent

Sarah Prince

Clinical Fellow Perinatal Mortality Review Tool, Lindsay Stewart Centre for Audit and Clinical Informatics
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Coralie Rogers

Maternity Matron, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham

Dimitrios Siassakos

Reader (Associate Professor) in Obstetrics at University College London and University College Hospital

Peter Smith

MBRRACE-UK/PMRT Programmer, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford

Claire Storey

PPI representative

Melanie Sutcliffe

Consultant Neonatologist, New Cross Hospital
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Foundation Trust, Wolverhampton

Derek Tuffnell

Professor and Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Jonathan Wyllie

Consultant Neonatologist, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, South Tees, Professor of Neonatology and Paediatrics, Durham University