Paediatric pathology has always been a shortage specialty, but recent criticism of pathologists in the United Kingdom has led to further recruitment difficulties within the field such that many centres no longer have a dedicated specialist. Perinatal autopsy consent rates are in relentless decline throughout the world, and exposure of clinicians and pathologists to detailed examination of congenital abnormalities and disease states has become very limited. As a result there is concern that the perceived value of the perinatal autopsy among …