Babies of minority ethnic groups are being disadvantaged and even put at risk due to outdated score tests, researchers say.
A health inequalities board has probed the continued use of the Apgar score - a 1950s test on infants which checks whether they are "pink all over" - and whether paediatricians should continue to use it.
Experts believe the test, which scores babies overall general health upon birth, is too ethnocentric and should be replaced.
