MBRRACE - Confidential enquiries into maternal death

Guideline commentary takes its place alongside Cochrane corner and Research unwrapped as part of our evidence series. The aim of Guideline commentary is to support you to critique and utilise newly published guidelines, enabling translation of appropriate recommendations to practice. The objective is to scrutinise recent guidelines to encourage an understanding of the key issues, recommendations and midwifery practice implications. This month, Hannah Rogers looks at the new MBRRACE report and is struck by the addition of mental health disorders as a cause of death. She also considers the proportion of women who suffer morbidity.