Résumé :
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The National Health Service (NHS) serves an increasingly diverse clientele in terms of ethnicity, culture and religion (Diversity UK 2020). There have been huge developments in terms of improving maternity services which have fortunately reduced maternal and neonatal mortality over the past 10 years, despite increasingly complex patients giving birth and being born in the UK (National Maternity Review 2016). However, it is concerning that, while the overall rates of maternal and neonatal mortality have reduced, certain subgroups (most notably Black and Asian heritage groups) are enduring a disproportionately larger burden of poor health outcomes. These include maternal death (including mortality from COVID-19), neonatal death, preterm birth, neonatal low birth weight and stillbirth; the reasons for these disparities are often unclear and multi-faceted (Garcia et al 2015, Draper et al 2018, Li et al 2019, Knight et al 2019, Knight et al 2020).
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