The National Maternity and Perinatal Audit: Inequalities through COVID-19 (17 February 2022)

Summary

In this article for the Maternity & Midwifery Forum, Kirstin Webster, NMPA Neonatal Clinical Fellow, describes the role of the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit. She presents results from research using the audit’s data on births during the major period of the pandemic, and the recent audit report of the effects of ethnicity and socio-economic deprivation on maternity and perinatal care. She highlights inequalities in outcomes and joins the call to investigate the causes of these disparities.