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Synopsis

The inequalities in maternity care have been highlighted recently with the publication of the Ockenden report and findings of the women’s health strategy. Becky, Judy and Sarah are GPs (or training GPs) that believe in the important of maternity care in the community and primary care. They are all members of the GPs Championing Maternity Care (GPCPC) group and reviewers and writers of the MBRRACE-UK report (Mothers and babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries). In this seminar they seek to talk about the important findings of the MBRRACE-reports and the reasons why mothers die and how we are all part of the solution.

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Biographies

Sarah Hillman is a GP and an NIHR clinical lecturer in primary care in the Unit of Academic Primary Care at WMS. Her research interests are in community women’s health and improving perinatal care. Sarah is a reviewer/writer for the MBRRACE-UK reports and a committee member for GPCPC. She is also a board member of the charity MASIC.

Becky MacGregor is a GP registrar and Academic Clinical Fellow in primary care, at the Unit of Academic Primary Care in WMS. Her research interests are in women’s health in the community. She is is an MBRRACE-UK reviewer and also a committee member for GPCPC.

Judy Shakespeare retired from working as a GP in a busy inner city practice in Oxford in 2011. For many years she has been interested in women’s health and she has been active in research into perinatal mental health and the safety of sodium valproate. She has worked with the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Death for two decades and currently is a reviewer, writer and editor for MBRRACE-UK. From 2014-17 she was the RCGP Clinical Champion for Perinatal Mental Health. She is Chair of GPCPC, FRCGP and recipient of the RCGP President’s medal in 2017.