Digital system for recording children's deaths 'will help cut fatalities'

University Hospital Limerick is the only centre outside of Dublin running the pilot. File photo: Niall Carson/PA

A new digital system for recording children’s deaths in Ireland is expected to help reduce fatalities with University Hospital Limerick now set to launch a pilot over April and May. 

This follows warnings "a large proportion" of the 612 child deaths in 2022 and 2023 were preventable, but the lack of a central recording system meant patterns cannot be properly analysed.