An investigation has been launched into a spike in deaths among newborn babies in Scotland.
Official
figures reveal that 21 infants died during September within 28 days of
birth, causing the neonatal mortality rate to breach an upper warning
threshold known as the ‘control limit’ for the first time in at least
four years.
Control and warning limits are designed to flag up to
public health teams when neonatal, stillbirth or other infant deaths
are occurring at unexpectedly high or low levels which may not be due to
chance.
Concerns have previously been raised about the potential
impact of Covid on maternity services and maternal wellbeing, but it is
the first time since the pandemic began that neonatal deaths have been
so abnormally above average.
Although the rate fluctuates month
to month, the figure for September – at 4.9 per 1000 live births – is on
a par with levels that were last typically seen in the late 1980s.
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