The work we are doing on birth defects
This World Birth Defect Day we can reflect on an important achievement in England: the establishment of a single, national, system for registering birth defects, which we prefer to call congenital anomalies.
Martin Ward-Platt
Dr Martin Ward Platt is the Clinical Lead for NCARDRS and consultant neonatal paediatrician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. He has been involved with congenital anomaly registration and analysis since the late 1980s