Maternal Enhanced and Critical Care (MEaCC) in Yorkshire and the Humber: regional implementation of an enhanced maternal care pathway and data collection.

Enhanced Maternity Care (EMC) is a new standard of care for women who become unwell during or shortly after pregnancy. Yorkshire and the Humber Maternity Clinical Network established the Maternal Enhanced and Critical Care Group (MEaCC) to create regional guidance with a focus on maternity staff training, development of the MEaCC database and data collection. This article describes the introduction of the MEaCC and regional data collection.