MBRRACE-UK -- Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries in the UK

MBRRACE-UK is a collaboration led from the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) at the University of Oxford by Professor Jenny Kurinczuk. The Infant Mortality & Morbidity Studies (TIMMS) lead the perinatal aspects of the work.

The aim of MBRRACE-UK is to provide robust information to support the delivery of safe, equitable, high quality, patient-centred maternal, newborn and infant health services.

The MBRRACE-UK programme of work comprises national surveillance of late fetal losses, stillbirths and infant deaths, confidential enquiries into perinatal mortality and serious infant morbidity and the national Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths.

For more information, visit the MBRRACE-UK website at www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk.

MBRRACE-UK team at TIMMS

• Elizabeth Draper (Co-lead for MBRRACE-UK)
• Bradley Manktelow (MBRRACE-UK Collaborator)
• Lucy Smith (MBRRACE-UK Collaborator)
• Martin Perkins (IT Officer)
• Caroline Ellershaw (Study Administrator)
• Ian Gallimore (Project Team Leader)
• Frances Mielewczyk (Study Administrator)

MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Reports

All reports published by MBRRACE-UK can be found at www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk/reports. The perinatal reports are listed below.

Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report for Births in 2014

Published May 2016

• Full report (PDF, 11.3 MB)
• Executive summary (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Lay summary (PDF, 4.3 MB)
• Infographic poster (PDF, 991 KB)
• Definitions of terms (PDF, 89 KB)
• FAQs for the general public (PDF, 166 KB)
• FAQs for healthcare professionals (PDF, 303 KB)

Confidential Enquiry into Perinatal Mortality: term, singleton, normally-formed, antepartum stillbirths

Published November 2015

• Full report (PDF, 9.9 MB)
• Lay summary (PDF, 740 KB)
• Infographic poster (PDF, 848 KB)

Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report for Births in 2013

Published June 2015

• Full report (PDF, 22.0 MB)
• Supplementary report (PDF, 2 MB) [published December 2015]
• Lay summary (PDF, 2.3 MB)
• One page summary (PDF, 1.7 MB)

• Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report 2013

• The Impact of 22 and 23 week Gestation Births on Perinatal Mortality

• How did we analyse the data?

Confidential Enquiry into Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Published December 2014

• Full report (PDF, 5.08 MB)
• Lay summary (PDF, 255 KB)

We are very grateful to Dave Hall for supporting the work of MBRRACE-UK.