This report focuses on the surveillance of perinatal deaths from 22+0 weeks gestational age (including late fetal losses, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths) of babies born between 1st January and 31st December 2018. The report finds that in the UK there has been a reduction in all three mortality rates: 15% in the stillbirth rate, 11% in the neonatal mortality rate and 16% in the extended perinatal mortality rate, across the six years of the MBRRACE-UK programme.
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“The data shows that good progress is being made over time in reducing perinatal and maternal mortality, despite an overall increase in the complexity of care. However, the picture is complex and in some areas it lacks clarity, partly as a result of data quality, and partly as a result of the time lag in the data.
Going forward, the programme will continue to work in partnership with national organisations and local systems to harness the collective drive and will to change and improve maternity care for women and families. Local Maternity Systems will continue to be the agents for change, and national support will focus on helping them to deliver evidence-based improvements to care rapidly and consistently.”
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Learning from standardised reviews when babies die: National Perinatal Mortality Review Tool: first annual report – presents data from the first 1,500 reviews conducted using the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) and provides a standard against which future improvements in case reviews and the issues with care identified can be compared.
This is the fifth MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report and provides information on extended perinatal deaths in the UK and Crown Dependencies arising from births during 2017. The aims of the MNI-CORP are to collect, analyse and report national surveillance data and conduct national confidential enquiries in order to stimulate and evaluate improvements in health care for mothers and babies.
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Maternity & Obstetrics 