Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 41183
Maternity Services: Ethnic Groups
Tabled: 25 March 2025
Answered: 3 April 2025
Question
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Labour — Clapham and Brixton Hill
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) ensure that data collection on maternity care outcomes is disaggregated by ethnicity and (b) reduce gaps in this data.
Answer
Karin SmythData on a woman’s ethnic background is routinely collected by services at multiple points throughout maternity care. This data is used to disaggregate reporting of adverse outcomes, like maternal mortality, by ethnicity. Differences by ethnicity are also ...
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