The latest information from the International Burn Injury Database (iBID) was presented to the annual Conference of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in Blackpool on the 12th November 2008. The extent and volume of information available was outlined and some results from recent analysis given, emphasising the enormous importance of the home environment in burn injury causation, especially for the young and the elderly.

At a meeting organised by the Department for Children, Schools and Families on the 13th of October 2008, staff from the International Burn Injury Database (iBID) contributed to the debate about the prevention of unintentional injury in children.   A wide range of recommendations were considered at the meeting with a clear role for the International Burn Injury Database (iBID) in the anticipated overall strategy.

This conference was held in the QEII Conference Centre in London with data from iBID being presented to highlight the size of the flame injury problem in England and Wales and the associated NHS health care costs.

A presentation entitled: Burn injury registry: what it can do for you, was delivered to the annual conferenc of RoSPA by Ken Dunn. The intention being to advise prevention practitioners that a means of measuring the effects of their interventions on burn injury rates was now available. With 5 years worth of basline data for signifiacnt burn injury, covering the whole of England and Wales, comparisons with future injury rates was now possible.

A presentation entitled: Burn injury registry: what it can do for you, was delivered to the annual conference of RoSPA using iBID data. The intention being to advise prevention practitioners that a means of measuring the effects of their interventions on burn injury rates was now available. With 5 years worth of baseline data for significant burn injury, covering the whole of England and Wales, comparisons with future injury rates was now possible.