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« Back to NewsNew report from MBRRACE-UK now available
8 December 2015
“Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care - Surveillance of maternal deaths in the UK 2011-13 and lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2009-13”
New report from MBRRACE-UK published
19 November 2015
“MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Confidential Enquiry Report 2015 – Term, Singleton, Normally-formed, Antepartum Stillbirth”
UK sees a fall in maternal deaths
9 December 2014
Maternal deaths in the UK have dropped from 11 per 100,000 women giving birth in 2006–08 to 10 per 100,000 women giving birth in 2010–12, according to a national report from a team of academics, clinicians and charity representatives, called MBRRACE-UK which is led from the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit.
NPEU Birthplace cohort study contributes to new NICE guidance on the safest place to give birth
3 December 2014
The new NICE guidance on intrapartum care published today recommends that healthy women with straightforward pregnancies should be advised to give birth in midwifery-led units or at home rather than in a consultant-led obstetric unit. Key evidence for these recommendations comes from the Birthplace in England national cohort study, carried out by researchers in the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) , Nuffield Department of Population Health and published in the BMJ in 2011.
Poorer women have worse experience of maternity care
19 September 2014
Women living in the most deprived areas are less likely to have antenatal care and less likely to have a routine postnatal check, compared with women in more affluent areas.