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Improving Equity in Maternity Care Through Linguistically Accessible Parent Education Classes: A Proposal for London-Wide Mapping and Evaluation

2026-02-26 sexual and reproductive health Title + abstract only
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BackgroundWomen with limited or no English proficiency experience persistent barriers to accessing maternity care in the UK, contributing to well-documented inequalities in maternal and perinatal outcomes. NHS parent education classes are predominantly delivered in English, and provision of multilingual classes within individual maternity units is often limited and duplicative. Evidence to inform collaborative, cross-trust service models remains scarce. ObjectiveTo assess womens access to, pref...

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