January 2018
The MBRRACE-UK report; Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care -Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2013–15; has revealed no significant reduction in the number of women who died during or after pregnancy. The report, led by the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford, includes data and analysis on women who died during or up to one year after pregnancy.