You asked
How many maternal deaths were there during the following years, January to December, in England and Wales: (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)?
We said
Thank you for your request.
We hold deaths registered to women where a pregnancy-related cause is listed on the death certificate and is then coded as the underlying cause (the O codes in the International Classification of Diseases) which can be found in our explorable dataset, NOMIS for 2013 to 2017:
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/summary.asp?mode=construct&version=0&dataset=161
You can filter by specific ICD-10 codes and geography. We are unable to provide you the breakdown by ethnicity as we do not hold this data.You can find this data prior to 2013 in table 5.15 of Deaths registered in England and Wales:
However, a maternal death is defined internationally as a death of a woman during or up to six weeks (42 days) after the end of pregnancy (whether the pregnancy ended by termination, miscarriage or a birth, or was an ectopic pregnancy) through causes associated with, or exacerbated by, pregnancy (World Health Organisation 2010).
To provide data to meet this definition, the MBRRACE-UK programme of work is responsible for the national Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) within the United Kingdom:
https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk
Latest report is available here:
This is your best source of data on maternal deaths and any queries should be directed to MBRACE-UK (mbrrace-uk@npeu.ox.ac.uk).