• J J Kurinczuk, E S Draper, D J Field, C Bevan, P Brocklehurst, R Gray, S Kenyon, B N Manktelow, J P Neilson, M Redshaw, J Scott, J Shakespeare, L K Smith, M Knight, and MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audit and Confidential Enquiries across the UK).
• National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• BJOG. 2014 Sep 1;121 Suppl 4:41-6.

AbstractEstablished in 1952, the programme of surveillance and Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the UK is the longest running such programme worldwide. Although more recently instituted, surveillance and confidential enquiries into perinatal deaths are also now well established nationally. Recent changes to funding and commissioning of the Enquiries have enabled both a reinvigoration of the processes and improvements to the methodology with an increased frequency of future reporting. Close engagement with stakeholders and a regulator requirement for doctors to participate have both supported the impetus for involvement of all professionals leading to greater potential for improved quality of care for women and babies.© 2014 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

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