Article: Specialist nurses boost parental willingness to consent to post-mortem research on children.

Parents are mostly willing to consent to post mortem research on their children, providing they are approached by specialist nurses, experienced in bereavement and family counselling, suggests a small study published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Post mortem research is crucial to understanding cases of sudden, unexpected death in children.

But following the Alder Hey organ retention scandal, in which children's tissue was retained for research without consent, recent changes to legislation and coroners' rules have made it difficult to carry this out.

Most cases of unexplained death in children are automatically ...

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