Saving lives, improving mothers’ care: Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2020-22 (MBRRACE-UK, October 2024)

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The eleventh MBRRACE-UK annual report of the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity, includes surveillance data on women who died during or up to one year after pregnancy between 2020 and 2022 in the UK. In addition, it also includes Confidential Enquiries into the care of women who died between 2020 and 2022 in the UK and Ireland from thrombosis and thromboembolism and malignancies as well as the care of women who died as a result of ectopic pregnancy between 2021 and 2022. The report also includes a Morbidity Confidential Enquiry into the care of migrant women who arrived in the UK less than two years prior to giving birth and who had a preferred language other than English. These women were identified from the MBRRACE-UK database of perinatal deaths or through routine national birth records for 2022.

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