Pregnancy: Ethnic Groups

(asked on 16th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for his Department's receipt of the findings of the Government-funded research by the National Institute of Health Research's Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care at the University of Oxford into the factors associated with the excess risk of maternal death for Black and South Asian women.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 26th June 2020

The National Institute for Health Research's Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care is undertaking the project – ‘Why are Black and ethnic minority mothers more likely to die either during pregnancy, or within the first year of giving birth, compared to white mothers born in the UK?’

The Department is due to receive initial findings from this study in autumn 2020.

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