Key messages from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death and Morbidity 2022

Abstract

The latest report from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and morbidity, the ninth in the now annual report format, includes surveillance and Confidential Enquiries covering the period 2018–2020. The report also includes reviews into the care of women who died during or after pregnancy in the Republic of Ireland as well as the UK. Following the annual topic-specific format, this report includes topic-specific reviews into the care of women who died from cardiovascular causes, hypertensive disorders and early pregnancy disorders and the care of women who died from mental health-related causes and accidents in 2020. The report also includes a Morbidity Confidential Enquiry into the care of women with diabetic ketoacidosis in pregnancy. Messages for improving the care of women with hypertensive disorders were also identified from reviews of babies who died or had brain injury conducted by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB).