Midwifery Resources

Welcome to the MAMA Academy Midwifery Resources hub – the go-to library for midwives, student midwives and maternity support workers. Here you’ll find the latest national reports, guidelines and statistics shaping UK maternity care, alongside practical learning resources to help you deliver safer care and support every family in your care to have a safer pregnancy. We review this page each term, so bookmark it and check back for the newest evidence.

Latest Reports

• Baroness Amos Independent Maternity and Neonatal Investigation – Final Reports (June 2026) – the watershed review of NHS maternity and neonatal services in England: eight recommendations to redesign the system, with listening to parents and families at its heart
• NHS England: 10-point plan for maternity services – the NHS response to the Amos report – the delivery commitments every maternity service is now working to
• Ockenden and Amos maternity reviews – Parliament overview (June 2026) – a one-stop summary of both landmark reviews and what Parliament is doing with their findings
• MBRRACE-UK: Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care 2026 – published September 2026: lessons from the care of 252 women who died during or after pregnancy in 2022-24, including a 20% rise in maternal deaths against the previous period
• MBRRACE-UK reports library – every annual and themed MBRRACE-UK report, with lay summaries
• Women’s Health Strategy for England (April 2026) – the renewed national strategy for women’s health, including maternity and birth priorities

Statistics

• ONS: Child and infant mortality in England and Wales – 2024 – the England stillbirth rate was 3.8 per 1,000 total births in 2024 – still far above the national 2.6 target, and evidence for our national fetal growth monitoring campaign
• Sands response to the ONS baby deaths data (May 2026) – why the latest figures demand urgent action
• NHS Maternity Statistics 2024-25 – the newest NHS maternity activity publication for England
• RCPCH State of Child Health 2026: infant mortality – how UK infant mortality trends compare across the four nations
• National Child Mortality Database: child death data release 2025 – the estimated neonatal death rate was 2.6 per 1,000 live births – down slightly but still above pre-pandemic levels
• CQC Maternity Survey 2025 – experiences of more than 16,750 women who used NHS maternity services across 119 trusts
• National Records of Scotland: vital events reference tables – Scotland’s births and deaths data
• ONS: Births in England and Wales – summary tables – always-current dataset page

 

Workforce and Learning for Midwives

• RCM: midwifery workforce under threat (July 2026) – the register reached 48,545 midwives, but only 3,304 joined in 2025-26
• RCM: what midwives need to know about the NHS autumn 2026 vaccination programme – seasonal guidance for midwives during winter
• Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) – the national tool for reviewing deaths and improving care
• Tommy’s free resources for health professionals – free leaflets and professional tools on stillbirth risk, growth, prematurity and more
• NHS Pregnancy hub – the NHS’s complete guide to pregnancy, labour and birth – the link to share with the families in your care
• Ready Steady Baby (NHS inform, 2026) – Scotland’s full pregnancy-to-8-weeks guide

 

Historical archive

Key historical reports, statistics and studies that shaped today’s maternity safety agenda.

Reports and resources (2012-2022)

• Nicotine vaping in England: 2022 evidence update summary, October 2022
• Staffing shortages – APPG report, October 2022
• Ockenden Review: Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust (final report), March 2022
• MBRRACE-UK: Perinatal Surveillance Report 2019, October 2021
• HSIB National Report: Intrapartum stillbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic, September 2021
• First Ockenden Review: Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust, December 2020
• MBRRACE-UK: Signs of Life, UK Clinical Guidance, November 2020
• MBRRACE-UK: Rapid report on SARS-CoV-2-related maternal deaths, March-May 2020
• Health and Social Care Committee’s Report, July 2021
• The Lancet: Miscarriage Matters series, April 2021
• Compassionate Communication Whilst Wearing PPE, August 2020
• Intrapartum-related perinatal deaths in midwifery-led settings (ESMiE), May 2020
• Closing The Gap, February 2020
• Better for Women: RCOG, December 2019
• RCOG Each Baby Counts: 2019 Progress Report
• CMV: Counting The Costs, 2019
• London Maternal Mortality Thematic Review, June 2019
• Maternal Health Around The World (Georgetown University), April 2019
• NHS Long Term Plan: maternity and neonatal services, January 2019
• #MindNBody: a holistic approach to perinatal mental health, 2019
• National Neonatal Audit Programme Annual Report 2019
• Each Baby Counts by RCOG, November 2018
• Mind The Gap: maternity training investigation, November 2018
• Maternity DMA Report, October 2018
• RCM State of Maternity Services Report 2018
• MBRRACE-UK: Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care 2018 (2014-16)
• Evaluation of the SBLCB in early adopter NHS Trusts, July 2018
• MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report 2018
• MBRRACE-UK Intrapartum Stillbirths and Related Neonatal Deaths, November 2017
• RCOG National Maternity & Perinatal Audit Clinical Report, November 2017
• Brain injury occurring during or soon after birth (2016-17 data)
• Rapid Resolution & Redress Scheme consultation response, November 2017
• DH Safer Maternity Care: progress and next steps, November 2017
• RCM i-Learn: Saving Babies Lives – Addressing Stillbirth, November 2017
• Maternity Bereavement Experience Measure Questionnaire, July 2017
• NHS Next Steps: Five Year Forward Review, March 2017
• Department of Health Safer Maternity Care, Next Steps, October 2016
• NHS Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle v1, March 2016
• NHS Spotlight On Maternity, March 2016
• National Maternity Review: Better Births, February 2016
• The Lancet: Ending Preventable Stillbirths, January 2016
• Exploring the Intangible Economic Costs of Stillbirth, September 2015
• NMC Code, March 2015
• SBAR Communication Tool (Kings College London), 2012

Statistics archive (2013-2020)

• ONS: Child and infant mortality in England and Wales 2020
• National Records of Scotland: vital events reference tables 2020
• HSCIC: NHS Maternity Statistics 2013-14
• CQC Maternity Services Survey 2019
• NHS Maternity Statistics 2019-20
• ONS: Vital statistics in the UK 2018
• ONS: Stillbirth numbers and rates for England and Wales to 2018
• ONS: Infant, neonatal and postneonatal mortality rates to 2018
• ONS: Stillbirth numbers and rates for England and Wales to 2017
• ONS: Infant, neonatal and postneonatal mortality rates to 2017