TY - JOUR T1 - MBRRACE 2021: preventing maternal deaths — we are all part of the solution JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 148 LP - 149 DO - 10.3399/bjgp22X718829 VL - 72 IS - 717 AU - Becky MacGregor AU - Judy Shakespeare AU - Rohit Kotnis AU - Marian Knight AU - Sarah Hillman Y1 - 2022/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/72/717/148.abstract N2 - The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths in the UK started in 1952, aiming to identify the improvements in care provided to pregnant and postnatal women to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. Since 2012, the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths in the UK has been based at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford. Each year the report provides surveillance data from a triennium and confidential enquiries into specific topics. GPs have been involved for >15 years and currently a team of sevenGP assessors are involved in case review. The 2021 report covers surveillance data on the deaths of women, during pregnancy or up to 1 year after pregnancy, between 2017 and 2019.1 This confidential enquiry covers the topics of morbidity of older mothers, mental health and multiple adversity, malignancy, and venous thromboembolism.A maternal death is a death occurring during pregnancy or up to 42 days after the end of a pregnancy. A ‘late’ maternal death is one occurring from 42 days to 1 year after delivery.Between 2017 and 2019, 191 women died, a maternal death rate of 8.79 per 100 000 maternities.1 There was no statistically significant decline in maternal deaths compared to 2010–2012. In 2017, the Health and Social Care committee set the aim of reducing maternal mortality by 50% between 2010 and 2025.1 Progress towards this goal is currently inadequate.2 Cardiac disease is the leading cause of maternal death in the UK, with neurological causes close behind. The highest rates of death are seen in particular ethnic groups, women aged ≥40 or <20 years, or related to socioeconomic deprivation. Black women are four times more likely, and Asian women almost two times more likely, to die than White women.1 The cause of this disparity is unclear, and with this in mind the … ER -