Table 1.

UK surveillance studies on COVID-19 in pregnant women and their babies

Name of study	Institution	Inclusion	Reporting by	Consent required	Likely coverage in Scotland
COVID-19 in Pregnancy47	UK Obstetric Surveillance System study	Any women admitted to hospital in the UK with confirmed COVID-19 at any stage of pregnancy	Front-line clinicians	No	High
Pregnancy And Neonatal outcomes for women with COVID-1948	National Institute of Healthcare Research Imperial Biomedical Research Centre	Women who have suspected or confirmed COVID-19 at any stage during pregnancy and their babies	Front-line clinicians	Yes	Unknown as yet
Clinical Characterisation Protocol Tier 0 study17	The International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium	Any patient admitted participating hospitals in the UK with confirmed COVID-19	Reporting is by research nurses	No	Low but may increase
Neonatal complications of COVID-1917	British Paediatric Surveillance Unit	All babies born to mothers with COVID-19 who are admitted to neonatal care (whether the baby has COVID-19 or not) and all babies with confirmed COVID-19 in the neonatal period.	Front-line clinicians.	No	High
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome, Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome15	British Paediatric Surveillance Unit	All children less than 16 years old (including neonates) with multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to SARS-CoV-2 infection or otherwise unexplained.	Front-line clinicians	No	High
Understanding COVID-19 infection in women and their babies (periCOVID)49	Public Health England and St George’s University London	Any pregnant woman with confirmed COVID-19 infection from 24 weeks gestation in England	Clinicians/research midwives and nurses	Yes	None