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  • Maternal mortality 2022-2024

    Data brief: Maternal mortality UK 2022-24 January 2026 Main points In 2022-24 the overall rate of maternal death in the UK was 20% higher than it was in 2009-11 when the government set an ambition to halve the rate of maternal mortality in England....

  • Maternal mortality 2021-2023

    Data brief: Maternal mortality UK 2021-23 September 2025 Update Main points There was a statistically non-significant decrease in the overall maternal death rate in the UK between 2020-22 and 2021-23. When deaths due to COVID-19 were excluded maternal...

  • Maternal mortality 2019-2021

    October 2023 Main points There was a statistically non-significant increase in the overall maternal death rate in the UK between 2018-20 and 2019-21. A statistically non-significant decrease occurred when deaths due to COVID-19 were excluded. COVID-19...

  • Maternal death rates in the UK 20% higher in 2022-24 than 2009-11

    The latest set of data presented by the MBRRACE-UK Collaboration investigation into maternal deaths in the UK shows that the mortality rate for women who died during or soon after pregnancy between 2022 and 2024 was 20% higher than the maternal death...

  • Maternal programme of work

    The maternal programme of MBRRACE-UK is run out of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) at the University of Oxford. It collects information about all women in the UK who die during pregnancy or in the year following the end of pregnancy and...

  • Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care

    Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care – lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death and Morbidity 2019-21 Slides This series of slides covers the findings and recommendations from the...

  • Maternal mortality 2020-2022

    Data brief: Maternal mortality UK 2020-22 October 2024 Update Main points There was a statistically non-significant increase in the overall maternal death rate in the UK between 2019-21 and 2020-22. A statistically non-significant increase also...

  • Maternal confidential enquiries

    MBRRACE-UK conducts confidential enquiries into the deaths of all women who die during pregnancy or up to a year after the end of pregnancy in the UK and Republic of Ireland. MBRRACE-UK also undertakes confidential enquiries into selected maternal...