We need to talk about the number of Black women dying in childbirth.

In England, the maternal mortality rate for white women is 7 per 100,000 live births.

For Black women, this rises to 38 per 100,000 live births.

Black women are more than 5x likely to die in childbirth.

Yesterday's @HumanRightsCtte report highlighted this fact and noted that @NHSuk "acknowledge and regret this disparity but has no plan to end it".

That's scandalous.

The Government has been aware of this disparity since at least 2013 and has done next to nothing.

The @HumanRightsCtte report recommends:

Increasing support & lowering clinical thresholds for Black women.

Reaching out to reassure pregnant Black women.

Ensuring hospitals discuss supplements and nutrition.

Recording ethnicity on maternity information.

These are welcome recommendations and must be implemented.

But as the report also notes, we've seen a series of reviews that exposed similar facts about structural racism.

Successive governments have clearly forgotten the whole point of such reviews is to change those facts.

The wider lesson is that the same issues arise time and time again in different contexts.

Lessons must be learned across the board.

The best way to eliminate health inequality is to eliminate all the inequalities Black women face across society.