Table 1

All cases of severe childhood anaemia 2019–2020 inclusive by cause

		2019	2020	Total
Malignancy	Haematological	30	16	46
Malignancy	Non-haematological	8	12	20
Congenital	Haematological*	9	7	16
Congenital	Metabolic	1	0	1
Neonatal†		1	1	2
Existing comorbidity	Gastrointestinal	2	3	5
	Renal	1	2	3
	Cardiac	1	1	2
	Hepatic	1	1	2
	Complex care needs	2	0	2
	Respiratory	1	0	1
Acute infection		1	1	2
Drug induced	Azathioprine	1	0	1
Blood loss	Menorrhagia	2	3	5
	Feto-maternal	1	3	4
	Gastrointestinal	2	1	3
	Postoperative	1	1	2
Spurious		4	4	8
Undiagnosed		0	2	2
Nutritional anaemia‡	Isolated iron deficiency	21	19	40
	Mixed iron and folate deficiency	12	6	18
	Isolated B12 deficiency	1	1	2
	Isolated folate deficiency	0	0	0
Total		103	84	187

*This includes children diagnosed with haemoglobinopathy or an inherited bone marrow failure syndrome.
†This includes mortality associated with extreme prematurity and haemolytic disease of the newborn.
‡All cases of nutritional anaemia were confirmed by testing ferritin and/or iron levels, folate and B12.