What is Cemach?
The confidential enquiry into maternal and child health (CEMACH)
What is CEMD Malaysia?
The CEMD was introduced in Malaysia in 1991, based on the England and Wales system. It is a review or audit process or enquiry by a committee that identifies factors that contributed to each reported maternal death and enables the providers to carry out remedial actions.
Why mothers die uk?
The leading Indirect cause is cardiac disease, which led to 44 deaths, including eight from myocardial infarction and eight from cardiomyopathy. Obese women accounted for 35% of all maternal deaths. The increasing tendency to delay pregnancy means that 18% of births are now to women aged 35 or over.
What is Mbrrace report?
‘MBRRACE-UK’ is the collaboration appointed by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) to run the national Maternal, Newborn and Infant clinical Outcome Review Programme (MNI-CORP) which continues the national programme of work conducting surveillance and investigating the causes of maternal deaths.
What is a confidential Enquiry?
Confidential enquiries are “confidential” in that details of the patients/cases remain anonymous, though reports of overall findings are published.
What is indirect maternal death?
Indirect obstetric deaths (or indirect maternal deaths) are those maternal deaths “resulting from previous existing disease or disease that developed during pregnancy and not due to direct obstetric causes but were aggravated by the physiologic effects of pregnancy”.
What is Mbrace midwifery?
The aim of the MNI-CORP MBRRACE-UK programme is to provide robust national information to support the delivery of safe, equitable, high quality, patient-centred maternal, newborn and infant health services. MBRRACE-UK achieves this by: Surveillance of all maternal deaths.
Why do mothers die during postnatal period?
It was estimated that in 2015, a total of 303,000 women died due to causes related to pregnancy or childbirth. The majority of these were due to severe bleeding, sepsis or infections, eclampsia, obstructed labor, and consequences from unsafe abortions.
What Is Better Births Initiative?
The ‘Better Births’ report and initiative is the result of the National Maternity Review commissioned by NHS England. It sets out a five year plan for transforming maternity services through implementation by Local Maternity Systems supported by NHS resource packs.
What is the maternal mortality rate in the UK?
7 deaths per 100,000 live births
In 2017, maternal mortality ratio for United Kingdom was 7 deaths per 100,000 live births. Maternal mortality ratio of United Kingdom fell gradually from 11 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2003 to 7 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2017.