OBGYN Objective To investigate the association between ethnicity and severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in England and the mediating effects of neighbourhood-level socio-economic deprivation across detailed .....

Ethnic Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity and the Contribution of Deprivation: A Population-Based Causal Analysis

Dorothea Geddes-Barton, Raph Goldacre, @marianknight.bsky.social, Nicola Vousden, Rema Ramakrishnan

@bjog.bsky.social

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Where does the withdrawal of national service development funding for maternity initiatives leave us?

Evaluation of changes underpinned by robust data are essential to ensure improvements in maternity safety, writes @marianknight.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Virtual conference - Presenting the MBRRACE-UK 'Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care' Report 2025
Thursday 11th September 2025

Virtual conference - Presenting the MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Reports 2025
Thursday 9th October 2025

Bookings will open shortly

www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk/b...

Achieving equitable maternal health services in the UK A lifelong approach is needed for safe and personalised care Achieving safe, personalised, and equitable maternal health services with a lifelong focus is not a new vision,1 yet data suggest we are…

On the day the latest mbrrace perinatal report is released, timely publication on @bmj.com of our editorial on achieving equitable maternal health services in the UK - a lifelong approach is needed for safe and personalised care
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Look after your mental health after you've had a baby YouTube video by Oxford Primary Care

One of the animations focusing on #postnatal #mentalhealth Be kind to yourself youtu.be/Nc59TReDclA?...

Really pleased to be at the launch event for Jen MacLellan’s Beams project today. Amazing work with some fantastic resources supporting postnatal health 👀 www.phc.ox.ac.uk/research/gro...

Blood clots continued to be the leading cause of maternal death in the UK during pregnancy or up to six weeks after the end of pregnancy. The leading causes of death between six weeks and one year after pregnancy were mental health-related

Women living in the most deprived areas continued to have a maternal mortality rate twice that of women living in the least deprived areas

The maternal death rate for Black women decreased in 2021-23 to 28 per 100,000 maternities. Black women were twice as likely to die compared to White women. Asian women and women from mixed ethnic backgrounds were statistically non-significantly slightly more likely to die compared to White women.

In 2021-23, 254 women died during or soon after pregnancy among 2,004,184 maternities, meaning that the rate of maternal death for this period was 12.67 per 100,000 maternities #mbrrace

Data Brief | MBRRACE-UK | NPEU https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/administrator/index.php?option=com_menus&view=item&client_id=0&menutype=mbrrace-uk&layout=edit#attrib-metadata

The latest MBRRACE-UK data on maternal deaths has been released today. It shows a statistically non-significant decrease in the mortality rate for women who died during or soon after pregnancy in 2021-23

In case anyone hasn't heard of superstats Thursday - the second Thursday is the one day each month when all audit and similar reports are released - so there is always lots to reflect on

It's superstats Thursday - so the PMRT annual report is also released. It shows an increase in the proportion of reviews with an external member present to provide an independent and robust view of the care given. Useful graphic showing the full team needed for reviews https://buff.ly/3RQqGVj

The latest #MBRRACE perinatal confidential enquiry into the care of recent migrant women with language barriers who have experienced a stillbirth or neonatal death is released today - 50% of their care contacts took place without any interpreter https://buff.ly/2HR30eT

Public health, policy, and clinical interventions to improve perinatal care for migrant women and infants in high-income countries: a systematic review The findings suggest that multicomponent interventions comprising multidisciplinary teams, in-person interpreting, maternal education, and social welfare support can improve perinatal outcomes for migrant women and their infants. Removing financial barriers to care may improve perinatal outcomes and be cost saving to healthcare systems. However, these findings should be interpreted with caution given that most included studies were of poor quality and that sensitivity analysis restricting to interventional studies only did not demonstrate any effect on the main outcomes of interest.

🔔 Our new publication is now available!

➡️ Multicomponent interventions improve #perinatal outcomes for migrant women and their infants

➡️ Removing financial barriers to care may improve perinatal outcomes and be #cost saving to #healthcare systems.

Access here: www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

"Collaboration for impact in MLTC research" slide in Prof Marian Knight's presentation at the Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC) Cross NIHR-Collaboration (CNC) launch event on 27 November 2024.

We won't tackle #HealthInequalities without tackling #MLTC & collaboration is essential... something ARCs excel at ... it's in our name! linktr.ee/nihrarcs

See top tips from @nihr.bsky.social's Prof Marian Knight in the summary slide from her talk at today's #MLTCCNC launch event !👇