MBRRACE-UK: Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK
About MBRRACE-UK
The MBRRACE-UK collaboration is responsible for running the national Maternal, Newborn and Infant clinical Outcome Review Programme (MNI-CORP), funded by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). The main purpose of MBRRACE-UK is to conduct robust national surveillance and investigate the deaths of women and babies who die during pregnancy or shortly after pregnancy in the UK. By investigating these deaths, MBRRACE-UK hopes to prevent similar deaths or serious complications in the future. In this way, MBRRACE-UK aims to support the delivery of safe, equitable, high-quality and patient-centred maternal, newborn and infant health services.
MBRRACE-UK consists of two sub-programmes:
The maternal programme is based out of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) at the University of Oxford and collects information about all women in the UK who die during pregnancy or in the year following the end of pregnancy. It also collects information on select groups of women who experience and survive a serious illness in pregnancy or shortly after. More information...
The perinatal programme is led by the Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS) collaborative at the University of Leicester. The Perinatal Programme of MBRRACE-UK conducts national surveillance of all eligible late fetal losses, stillbirths and neonatal deaths in the UK. It also conducts confidential enquiries on selected topics related to perinatal mortality and serious infant morbidity. More information...
MBRRACE-UK Reports
MBRRACE-UK produces several reports based on the findings of the maternal and perinatal programmes of work all of which can be found on the MBRRACE-UK reports page.
Reports produced by MBRRACE-UK:
Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care annual report including:
- National surveillance of women's deaths during pregnancy and up to one year after the end of pregnancy in the UK
- Confidential enquiries into all women's deaths during pregnancy and up to one year after the end of pregnancy in the UK and the Republic of Ireland
- An annual topic-specific confidential enquiry into select maternal morbidity events
Perinatal Mortality Surveillance annual report including:
- National surveillance of all eligible perinatal deaths (late fetal losses, stillbirths and neonatal deaths) in the UK
Perinatal Confidential Enquiry report including:
- A biennial topic-specific confidential enquiry into select perinatal mortality or morbidity events
Reporting a death to MBRRACE-UK
To report a death to MBRRACE-UK please contact us.