Publication, Part of Female Genital Mutilation

Female Genital Mutilation, January 2023 - March 2023

Official statistics in development

Publication Date:: 1 Jun 2023
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Regions, Country, Hospital Trusts, NHS Trusts, Local Authorities, Sub-Integrated Care Boards, Integrated Care Boards, Clinical Commissioning Groups
Date Range:: 01 Jan 2023 to 31 Mar 2023

FGM consultation - register your interest

The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced Dataset is a valuable information source supporting the identification, commissioning and management of FGM services both nationally and locally. To help improve its quality and completeness NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care are reviewing its content and the processes surrounding it and will be launching a consultation. If you would like to be contacted directly when this consultation is released, please email [email protected] and include the text 'Consultation notification request' in the subject line.

1 June 2023 09:30 AM

Summary

The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced Dataset (SCCI 2026) is a repository for individual level data collected by healthcare providers in England, including acute hospital providers, mental health providers and GP practices.

There were 1,675 individual¹ women and girls who had an attendance where FGM was identified in the period January 2023 - March 2023. These accounted for 2,890 attendances² reported at NHS trusts and GP practices where FGM was identified.
There were 760 newly recorded¹ women and girls in the period January 2023 - March 2023. Newly recorded means that this is the first time they have appeared in this dataset. It does not indicate how recently their FGM was undertaken, nor does it mean that this is the woman or girl’s first attendance for FGM. The number of newly recorded women and girls has reduced over time. This is to be expected as the longer the collection continues, the greater the chance of a woman or girl having been recorded in it previously.
Since April 2015, 33,590 individual¹ women and girls had an attendance where FGM was identified.
In the period January 2023 - March 2023, 82 NHS trusts and 21 GP practices submitted one or more FGM attendance records.

Definitions

(1) Individuals refers to all patients in the reporting period where FGM was identified or a procedure for FGM was undertaken. Each patient is only counted once.

(2) Total Attendances refers to all attendances in the reporting period where FGM was identified or a procedure for FGM was undertaken. Women and girls may have one or more attendances in the reporting period. This category includes both newly recorded and previously identified women and girls.

(3) Newly Recorded refers to an individual’s first appearance in the FGM dataset. Newly recorded does not necessarily mean that the attendance is the woman’s or girl’s first attendance for FGM.