Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-05-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of the data on levels of child mortality in the UK published by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Dr Daniel Poulter

We have no reason to question the accuracy of the data from the Global Burden of Disease study. Any limitations of the estimates made and methodology used are clearly set out in the published article.

The findings reflect other studies which show that the United Kingdom child mortality rate continues to fall, but not as much as in comparable European countries.