Perinatal mortality surveillance reports

The annual perinatal mortality surveillance reports present perinatal mortality rates in the UK and for Trusts and Health Boards as well as mortality rates by gestational age, ethnicity and socio-economic deprivation. These reports also include a description of the causes of periantal deaths in the UK.

These reports focus on births from 24 completed weeks' gestational age, with the exception of the section on mortality rates by gestational age, which also includes information on births at 22 to 23 completed weeks' gestational age.This avoids the influence of the wide disparity in the classification of babies born before 24 completed weeks' gestational age as a neonatal death or a late fetal loss. Terminations of pregnancy have been excluded from the mortality rates reported.

Current report

Previous reports

Previous MBRRACE-UK perinatal mortality surveillance reports can be accessed using the links below.