Experts from Loughborough University will work with the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) to identify patterns in more than 600 of its recent investigations into adverse outcomes during pregnancy and birth.
HSIB, an independent patient safety body, has conducted more than 2,000 maternity investigations since April 2018, with around 10 per cent concerning black, Asian and ethnic minority families. These examined cases such as the death of the mother during pregnancy or childbirth, miscarriages, stillbirths and neonatal deaths.
Black mothers are four times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women, according to a report published by MBRRACE-UK earlier this month.
It found that pregnancy is safe, with 8.8 women per 100,000 between 2017-2019 dying either during pregnancy, up to six weeks after childbirth or at the end of pregnancy.
The report noted that outcomes were not equal, with the maternal mortality rates of women...