Danger to Scotland from UK system of investigating maternal deaths
YOUR report on deaths during childbirth is a timely reminder that young women still die before their time as a consequence of pregnancy ("Revealed: Deaths during childbirth are on the rise", The Herald, January 4).
YOUR report on deaths during childbirth is a timely reminder that young women still die before their time as a consequence of pregnancy (\"Revealed: Deaths during childbirth are on the rise\", The Herald, January 4).
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Major changes are being implemented to the way in which deaths associated with pregnancy are being investigated in Scotland. There is a grave danger that the changes will result in poorer quality of information, poorer interrogation of data and therefore failure to recognise patterns of preventable harm from these rare but devastating events.
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Danger to Scotland from UK system of investigating maternal deaths
YOUR report on deaths during childbirth is a timely reminder that young women still die before their time as a consequence of pregnancy ("Revealed: Deaths during childbirth are on the rise", The Herald, January 4).
Major changes are being implemented to the way in which deaths associated with pregnancy are being investigated in Scotland. There is a grave danger that the changes will result in poorer quality of information, poorer interrogation of data and therefore failure to recognise patterns of preventable harm from these rare but devastating events.
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