Children and young people with life-threatening illnesses are not being treated appropriately because the health professionals caring for them are not trained in paediatrics, the world's first confidential inquiry into child deaths has found.

The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health reviewed child deaths in three regions of England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2006 and scrutinised 119 deaths.

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