179:, and showed that it was safer for women to have another Caesarean. She led Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE-UK), a programme which monitored maternal deaths between 2009 and 2013. In 2015 MBRRACE-UK) showed that whilst maternal deaths were falling, women could receive better care, and suicides could be prevented. She was named an Honorary Fellow of the
168:, a neurological disorder that occurs in the earliest days of life. She led the Congenital Anomaly Register (CAR) for Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire (OBB), a portal that collected information on babies born with congenital abnormalities. The information was used to better understand the causes of these abnormalities, to improve the quality of testing facilities and to enhance NHS services.
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