What Is It?

• Completes the first cycle in the new format of annual reports featuring rolling triennial surveillance data  and 3-yearly topic-specific confidential enquiry chapters

• Part 1 = Surveillance data on UK maternal deaths 2012-14

• Part 2 = Confidential enquiry reports on maternal mortality and morbidity in the UK and Ireland from 2009-14, concentrating on ‘cardiovascular disease’, ‘caring for women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy’, ‘messages for early pregnancy’ and ‘messages for critical care’.