Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health

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Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health

A UK partner organisation of NICE launched in 2003 based on the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) and the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI).

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I also spend time following up women who do not access services (bearing in mind that this is a recommendation from CEMACH [8]) and keep in touch with women who are moved to different districts at short notice by the Border Agency.

HIV and pregnancy: past, present and future

Catherine Nelson-Piercy, a Medical Assessor for CEMACH, summarised some of the results of the latest enquiry.

Obesity is a growing contributor to maternal morbidity in the industrialised world and beyond; international data presented at a UK conference supports the view that an epidemic of obesity is threatening the health of mothers and babies

The seventh repot of the confidential inquires into maternal death in the United Kingdom, London, CEMACH, 2007.