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SMARTRISK Monitor

Helping to reduce the number of unintentional injuries among children and young people

It is estimated that if every PCT reduced the number of unintentional injuries among people aged ten to 24 by just ten per cent, the total saving to the NHS would be £24million a year.

SMARTRISK is a registered charity working with Dr Foster Intelligence to develop a tool for PCTs and SHAs that assesses the risk of injuries to children and young people and identifies injury hotspots. The SMARTRISK Monitor tool enables SHAs and PCTs to target interventions that make a difference to the incidence of such injuries and the associated costs.

The SMARTRISK Monitor:

• Builds a picture of serious unintentional injury in children using hospital admissions data
• Analyses injuries based on 14 categories of admission, including bicycle, pedestrian, motorbike and car injuries, falls and poisoning. It gives the rate per 100,000 of population for children and young adults aged ten to 24
• Assesses high-risk areas and analyses potential trends
• Benchmarks and compares activity across PCT boundaries
• Helps PCTs to design, monitor and evaluate injury prevention campaigns
• Shows data from July 2004 to June 2006, grouped quarterly

Click here for more information on the SMARTRISK methodology, the potential savings to the NHS and the levels of unintentional injury across SHAs.

Version 1 of SMARTRISK Monitor has been made available to PCTs at no cost for three months. Subsequent versions will have additional features and functions, such as the ability to drill down to ward level. Version 2 will be available in May at a small cost to PCTs and SHAs. The funds generated from this charge will help SMARTRISK to increase its delivery of injury prevention programmes across the UK and to fund future developments of this tool.

SMARTRISK Monitor has been built using GeoWise's Instant Atlas application, a graphical presentation tool that makes regional and local patterns easy to see and explore. To view the tool, you will need to have the Adobe SVG Viewer plug-in installed on your computer. This is available free at adobe.com.

SMARTRISK Monitor

This link will direct you to the SMARTRISK log-in page. If you have not already done so, you will need to register in order to receive a username and password to access the monitor tool.