Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 14
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Insufficient ethnicity data on maternal morbidity prevents monitoring and improving outcomes.
Conclusion
Collecting robust, consistent, and equity-focused data on ethnicity and maternal morbidity is essential to enable health services to monitor and improve their services guiding improvements in maternal outcomes. Without it, it is significantly harder to produce accurate comparisons across all ethnic groups and evaluate disparities in maternal outcomes amongst different ethnicities, and gaps may obscure the true extent of disparities in outcomes for Black and other minority ethnic women. (Conclusion, Paragraph 79)
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 16 December 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗