2019 | 2020 | Total | ||
Malignancy | Haematological | 30 | 16 | 46 |
Non-haematological | 8 | 12 | 20 | |
Congenital | Haematological* | 9 | 7 | 16 |
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.