Monday 01 December 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8962
Date Request Received: 13/10/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 23/10/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Use of the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool
Request Category: Media
| Question Number 1: This is a Freedom of Information request regarding your trust’s use of the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT). This tool is used in almost all cases of late miscarriages, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths, and your maternity department will be familiar with it. For the calendar year 2024, please provide the following information: How many late miscarriages, stillbirths and neonatal deaths were identified as meeting the criteria for a PMRT review? • | |
| Answer To Question 1: 5 cases. | |
| Question Number 2: Of these, the percentage of cases that resulted in a report being produced (i.e. where the review was completed, closed, and a final report generated)? | |
| Answer To Question 2: 100% | |
| Question Number 3: In what percentage of PMRT reviews was a clinician external to the trust part of the reviewing team? | |
| Answer To Question 3: 100% | |
| Question Number 4: In what percentage of PMRT reviews (including cases which were identified as meeting the criteria but not completed), were the parents invited to provide comments about care? | |
| Answer To Question 4: 100% | |
| Question Number 5: For completed reports, the number of cases graded as follows (using the standard PMRT definitions): (see attached) | |
| Answer To Question 5: Please see attached. To accompany this answer to question 5 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 8962 - Q5 (1).docx | |
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