questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of whether venous thromboembolism-related maternal mortality differs by (a) ethnicity, (b)deprivation, (c) geography, (d)disability and (c) age.
answerText: We recognise the importance of tackling blood clots in pregnancy, also referred to as venous thromboembolism (VTE), as the leading cause of maternal death in England. The rate of maternal deaths from thrombosis and thromboembolism rose substantially betwe...
heading: Thromboembolism