What the rates of maternal (a) deaths and (b) maternal health problems were among (i) the Gypsy/Traveller population in Scotland and (ii) t…

Part (a/b) (i). The rates of maternal deaths and maternal health problems in the Gypsy/Traveller population in Scotland are not held centrally, either by the General Register Office Scotland, or by Information Services Division Scotland.
Part (a) (ii). The General Register Office Scotland (GROS) publishes data on vital events in Scotland, but does not publish figures which are described as maternal deaths, as such on a regular basis. However, a section on maternal deaths was published in 2005, in table 2.1 of Scotland''s Population 2005:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/annual-report-publications/rgs-annual-review-2005/annual-report-2005-tables.html.
For the purpose of the 2005 report, maternal deaths were defined as deaths for which the underlying cause was coded to International Classification of Disease 10 (ICD10) Chapter XV codes O00-O99; Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. Each year, GROS publish the numbers of O00-O99 deaths in the Vital Events Reference Table 6.1:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/vital-events/vital-events-reference-tables-2008/section-6-deaths-causes.html.
This table shows that there were five deaths in 2008 and single-figure numbers in each of the previous 10 years.
Part (b) (ii). Information on severe maternal health problems are published annually by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland in The Scottish Confidential Audit of Severe Maternal Morbidity Reports.
http://www.nhshealthquality.org/nhsqis/controller?p_service=Content.show&p_applic=CCC&pMenuId=0&pElementID=0&pContentID=6088.