Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2018-20

Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2018-20 This report finds that pregnancy remains very safe in the UK. In 2017-2019 191 women, of the 2,173,810 giving birth, died during or up to six weeks after pregnancy; 495 during or up to one year after their pregnancy. This is a small, but not statistically significant, decrease in the overall maternal death rate. It outlines a need for recognition that women can be placed at additional risk by clinician behaviours which focus on concerns over a woman’s pregnancy rather than concerns over a woman herself. It also highlight the gaps that remain in mortality rates between women from deprived and affluent areas, women of different ages and women from different ethnic groups. MBRRACE-UK