Clinical audit of health visitor interventions in child accident prevention.

The Health of the Nation strategy has set a target for reducing the death rate from accidents among children aged under 15 by at least 33 per cent by 2005. Accidents are included because they present a major health issue. Maureen Carson and Rosemary Thompson describe the part played by health visitors in the Norwich Community Health Services strategy to cut child accident rates, and the important role of the hospital paediatric liaison health visitor.