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.
A new study using data collected by the MBRRACE-UK collaboration has found that one third of women who died during or in the year after pregnancy were known to children's social care, which is higher than previously reported. The study is published in BMJ Medicine and was led by researchers from King's College London, Oxford Population Health's National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, and the charity Birth Companions.
