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With improving outcomes in the infants at highest risk of mortality and morbidity, clinicians are challenged to re-think the norms by which they set their treatment goals and approaches to communication. See page F348 Variations in outcome The Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe (EPICE) collaboration cohort is a geographically defined prospective study of all very preterm (<32 weeks’ gestation) stillbirths and live births in 19 regions of 11 European countries and covers 850 000 births annually. After adjustment for known maternal, pregnancy and infant factors there was wide variation in moderate or severe NDI across countries suggesting that there may be differences in the quality of care provision, treatment and provision of follow-up services for infants across Europe that requires further investigation.