MBRRACE‐UK update: Key messages from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death and Morbidity 2021

Abstract

The latest report from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and morbidity, the eighth in the now annual report format, includes surveillance and Confidential Enquiries covering the period 2017–19. The report also includes reviews into the care of women who died during or after pregnancy in the Republic of Ireland as well as the UK. Following the annual topic-specific format, this report includes topic-specific reviews into the care of women who died from mental health-related causes, venous thromboembolism, homicide and malignancy. The report also includes a Morbidity Confidential Enquiry into the care of women who gave birth aged over 45 years.