Spotlight on… maternal medicine

Abstract

Back in 2015 I was asked to write the first ‘Spotlight on. . . maternal medicine’ – here I am reprising it in 2022. It has given me great delight to look back at The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (TOG)’s publishing history over the last 7 years to see the ongoing commitment by way of relevant, highquality, authoritative articles on subjects ranging from suicide to sepsis. There are many such articles, so I have chosen to focus on the ones relevant to the most recent MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK) Maternal Mortality Surveillance and Confidential Enquiry Report. TOG has been privileged to feature regular articles from Prof Marian Knight informing us on the highlights from MBRRACE-UK and the UK obstetric surveillance system (UKOSS). Many of you will have seen the recent MBRRACEUK report, which again highlights suicide, cardiac disease, thrombosis and neurological disease (commonly epilepsy) as the commonest causes of maternal death in the UK. These subjects, and more, have been covered in TOG.