Saving Mothers’ Lives: Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 2006–2008

The overall findings of the Report are that fewer women died of direct causes, such as thromboembolism and haemorrhage. There was also a lower rate of death attributed to deprivation and lower socioeconomic status though this is very much still an issue. More women died who had Group A streptococcal infections. The Report 'identified substandard care in 70% of Direct deaths and 55% of Indirect deaths' (p1).

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