The Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care (PRU-MNHC) began a programme of work in January 2019 with funding from the Policy Research Programme at the Department of Health and Social Care (England) via the National Institute for Health Research.
The NPEU Clinical Trials Unit (NPEU CTU) is a fully registered UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit and typically runs a number of large multi-centre Randomised Controlled Trials.
The NPEU also conducts Social Sciences, Health Economics and Epidemiological Research (SHEER) which includes on-going influential studies.
The latest annual report from the National Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT), delivered by the MBRRACE-UK/PMRT collaboration, has identified continuing opportunities to improve the quality of reviews carried out when babies die during pregnancy or soon after birth, and to translate learning from those reviews into safer care for mothers and babies.
