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ALT Bar chart showing the proportion of deliveries followed by an emergency hospital contact in the first year after birth across five deprivation quintiles. Headline reads: “Women living in deprived areas are more likely to attend A&E in the first year after birth”. Subheading reads: “Deliveries followed by an emergency hospital contact”. Five bars decrease in height from the most deprived to the least deprived areas, with rates falling from 27% in the most deprived quintile to 17% in the least deprived quintile. A dashed horizontal line marks the average rate at 22%. The chart shows that women living in more deprived areas of England are substantially more likely to have an emergency hospital contact in the year after giving birth.