Poorer women have worse experience of maternity care

Published on Wednesday, 17 September 2014 Tweet

Women living in the most deprived areas are less likely to have antenatal care and less likely to have a routine postnatal check, compared with women in more affluent areas. NPEU researchers Anthea Lindquist, Marian Knight and others carried out a study of over 5000 women taking part in the 2010 National Maternity Survey. Read the full paper in BJOG.