The ‘Each Baby Counts’ report has recommended new measures to improve maternity care and support maternity teams in escalating critical situations, after analysing 1,130 cases of babies who met the eligibility criteria, out of around 677,192 babies born at term in the UK in 2017.
Launched in 2014, the report is part of a national quality improvement programme that aims to reduce the number of babies who die or are left severely disabled as a result of incidents that happen during term labour.
The report found that in 2017 there were:
The report also found that 714 babies reviewed, or 72 per cent of cases, might have had a different outcome had different care been given.
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