Poisoning
February 2013
The cost to the NHS from hospital admissions from poisoning to children is £2 million a year. Dr Joe Brierley, Consultant Paediatric Intensivist, talks about the emotional and financial cost of poisoning to children.
Tools
- Five for the under-fives
- Search data and statistics
- YouTube – road safety and children
- Accidents and child development
- Activity mapping
- Action to prevent traffic injury and improve health must be co-ordinated
- Argument for action
- Burns and scalds
- CAPT resources
- Training for the early years workforce
- CMO report 2012
- Costs of child accidents
- Crossing Over road safety resource
- Data and statistics
- Developing a child injury prevention resource library
- Essential evidence on transport safety
- Guide to commissioning
- Head injuries
- Improving safety for children travelling to and from school
- Improving the public's health report
- Injury prevention and promoting physical activity
- Injury prevention briefing, a free resource for practitioners
- Introducing 20mph limits in priority areas
- Learning from the past
- Low literacy
- Making the Link events
- Nappy sacks
- National Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network
- NICE guidance
- Partnership working
- Poisoning
- Reducing unintentional injuries in and around the home
- Reducing unintentional injuries on the roads among children
- Research into child accidents
- Social marketing
- Strategies for accident prevention
- Topic briefings
- Useful links
- E-Learning from the iHV with CAPT
- Swimming pool safety
- Commercial Vehicles
The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) is the UK's leading charity working to reduce the number of children and young people killed, disabled or seriously injured in accidents.