You asked
Please may I request data based on the mortality and morbidity rates of adolescent pregnancy within England and Preston, Lancashire. 2013 to 2018.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We are responsible for publishing mortality statistics for deaths that have been registered in England and Wales. The latest year for which data is available is 2017.
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). This data is available by age-group for England and Preston for 2013-2017 from our explorable dataset in NOMIS: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/select/getdatasetbytheme.asp?theme=73
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. The report of the latest Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths can be found here: https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk/reports
Other special extracts and tabulations of deaths data for England and Wales are available (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement of costs, where appropriate). You can contact the team directly at: vsob@ons.gov.uk