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Data collection Sunderland clinicians prospectively captured data about the needs of children with CP since 1990, in collaboration with the North of England Collaborative Cerebral Palsy Survey until 2016 when Public Health England withdrew funding. Abbreviation MRICS Magnetic Resonance Imaging Classification System When new information about a child having cerebral palsy (CP) is shared with families, parents want to know what this will mean for them and what to expect for the future. Of the 11 out of 95 (11.6%) children with CP who had no admissions and MRICS category E (normal), all had motor function in GMFCS levels I or II, other than one in GMFCS level IV. Definitions The internationally agreed definition of CP was used.11 The classification system of the Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy in Europe described CP subtypes.12 The GMFCS1 described gross motor function. [Extracted from the article]

The purpose of this observational study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the presentation, stage and management pattern on newly presented HNC patients during the pandemic era. The data on all newly diagnosed HNC patients at our centre during April-December 2020 (COVID-19 cohort) were collected, and it was compared against the baseline pre-COVID-19 cohort (all new HNC patients diagnosed between April and December 2019). During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postulated that there might be a delay in cancer patients' presentation, stage migration and changes in management leading to excess cancer mortality.1 However, there is a paucity of real-time objective data to support this, particularly in HNC. [Extracted from the article]