Saving lives, improving mothers’ care

This report by the MBRRACE-UK collaboration highlights maternal suicide as the leading cause of direct death in the year following pregnancy. It includes details on the rise in maternal (birthing parent) deaths by suicide during this period. It also includes several recommendations for improving mental health care and care for women with multiple adversity.

MBRRACE-UK Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care resource cover. Dated November 2022.  Black and white line drawings of the side profiles of women of a variety of ethnicities. The MBRRACE-UK logo is in the top right of the publication image.