Stillbirths and neonatal deaths increased throughout the UK in 2021, after 7 years of yearly decrease, scientists have actually stated.
On 14 September the MBRRACE-UK (Moms and Infants: Lowering Danger through Audits and Confidential Enquiries) cooperation research study group released a state of the country report on perinatal deaths of children born in the UK in 2021. 1 It discovered that there were 2473 stillbirths in 2021, up from 2292 stillbirths in 2020 and 2399 in 2019. Neonatal deaths (those of a liveborn baby, no matter gestational age at birth, within the very first 28 days 2) numbered 1151 in 2021, up from 1051 in 2020 and comparable to the 1158 in 2019.
In 2015 the then health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, revealed an aspiration to decrease …
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