Our Vision

Compassion, Courage & Collaboration

We will reduce racial disparities in perinatal outcomes for Black women, families and babies through a multifaceted, Anti Racism approach, centring on immersing NHS perinatal services over a sustained period of time to transform into Anti Racist organisations.

Moving the onus away from women and babies racialised as Black and instead onto the unsafe systems of care that perpetuate harm will result in improved outcomes and experiences, and reduction in morbidity and mortality.

Impact & Progress

We evaluate each cohort of our programme, enabling us to keep making improvements the next time round.

As we move into our fourth cohort in early 2025, we are expanding our evaluation focus to include rigorous analysis of clinical indicators for women and babies racialised as Black.

By the end of 2025 we will have delivered:

10 perinatal cohorts across our three local maternity and neonatal systems in the West of England
3 cohorts of senior leaders
300+ graduates of the Black Maternity Matters programme

We are currently working with the NHS Race and Health Observatory to formalise our wide range of work into key themes and an actionable framework. We also bring together people from across our Black Maternity Matters community around specialist themes that support the QI work they are delivering within their own organisations.