Read the Joint Policy Unit’s response to new data on perinatal mortality published by MBRRACE UK

“Today’s report from MBRRACE-UK shows the gap continues to grow between neonatal death rates in the most deprived areas and those in the least deprived areas of the UK. Put starkly, newborn babies are dying because of poverty and deprivation.  

The stillbirth rate among babies of Asian ethnicity has risen sharply, and Black babies are still twice as likely as White babies to be stillborn.  

The Government must take urgent and targeted action to reduce health inequalities at local and national level, to save babies’ lives.  

The overall decrease reported by MBRRACE-UK in both stillbirths and neonatal deaths is welcome – but no family should be left behind because of where they live or the colour of their skin.”  

– Robert Wilson, Head of the Sands and Tommy’s Joint Policy Unit