Maternal and Fetal Health (Maternal and Fetal Health Group

Although most women have healthy and happy pregnancies:

Each day more than 100 babies in the UK are born too small or too soon
In addition to the social cost to affected parents and families, the financial cost to the NHS of caring for the babies in intensive care is around £500m per year
One in four pregnancies in the UK will end in miscarriage
One in 200 babies in the UK will be stillborn
Across the world one woman dies every three minutes from pre-eclampsia

Who are we?

The Maternal and Fetal Health Group is positioned at the scientific and clinical interface of both the University of Manchester and NHS research infrastructures and is a collection of different teams which are in place to help identify and enlarge shared interests. These teams provide the Group with an interdisciplinary research portfolio, which is aimed at firmly positioning us as an international focus for pregnancy research; striving towards a bench-to-bedside ethos of translational research that improves our understanding, treatment and outcomes of the major human pregnancy complications.

The teams within the Research Group include: