Monitoring children's growth: how are we doing?

This month the Chief Medical Officer's National Screening Committee held its first conference on systematic reviews of screening in child health. It was managed by the Child Growth Foundation, included an interim report on growth screening and posed the question whether children needed more of the same. Tam Fry, Honorary Chairman of the Foundation, believes that, as far as growth is concerned, they do despite the improvements that have been made since the "new" centile charts were introduced four years ago and reported in Professional Care of Mother & Child.