MBRRACE‐UK Update: Key messages from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death and Morbidity 2017

The latest report from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths, the fourth in the new annual report format, and the first to repeat the 3‐yearly thematic cycle, was published in December,1 and includes surveillance and Confidential Enquiries covering the period 2013–15. Once again the report includes reviews into the care of women who died during or after pregnancy in the Republic of Ireland as well as the UK. Following the annual topic‐specific format, this report includes topic‐specific reviews into the care of women who died from neurological conditions, other medical and surgical conditions, sepsis, anaesthetic complications, haemorrhage and amniotic fluid embolism, as well as Confidential Enquiries into the care of women with morbidity due to uncontrolled epilepsy in pregnancy and those with severe postpartum mental illness.