Summary
This statistical release makes available the most recent monthly data on NHS-funded maternity services in England, using data submitted to the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS).
This is the latest report from the newest version of the data set, MSDS.v.2, which has been in place since April 2019. The new data set was a significant change which added support for key policy initiatives such as continuity of carer, as well as increased flexibility through the introduction of new clinical coding. This was a major change, so data quality and coverage has initially reduced from the levels seen in previous publications.
The data derived from SNOMED codes is being used in some measures such as those for smoking at booking and birth weight, and others will follow in later publications. SNOMED data is also included in some of the published Clinical Quality Improvement Metrics (CQIMs), where rules have been applied to ensure measure rates are calculated only where data quality is high enough. System suppliers are at different stages of developing their new solution and delivering that to trusts. In some cases, this has limited the aspects of data that could be submitted to NHS Digital.
Due to processing delays within the Strategic Data Collection Service, the final data submission for The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (RNA) did not finish processing until after the submission window for June 2022 data had closed. As a result, this publication contains RNA data provided earlier in the submission window, and therefore the use of any figures based on this data should be considered carefully with this in mind and caution should be applied.
To help Trusts understand to what extent they meet the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) Data Quality Criteria for Safety Action 2, until the publication of July 2022 data we are producing two data files each month which contain information for data providers showing their performance against all MSDS-derived Safety Action 2 criteria. These are available for download alongside the main publication documents below. All the CNST measures use data from the latest reporting month only, in this case June 2022. For some measures this differs to their construction in the main publication CSV files, where they may report on data from longer or different time periods.
These statistics are classified as experimental and should be used with caution. Experimental statistics are new official statistics undergoing evaluation. More information about experimental statistics can be found on the UK Statistics Authority website.
Please note that the percentages presented in this report are based on rounded figures and therefore may not total to 100%.
Key Facts
120 successful submissions
For June 2022 data, 120 providers successfully submitted data with 120 submitting data on births.
51,565 bookings in June 2022
51,565 women with an antenatal booking appointment were reported in the period, of which 57% were within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Of the trusts that submitted booking data, there were 29,515 bookings in which the babies' gestational age was in the 0-70 days range.
We received data relating to 42,935 deliveries of 43,590 babies.
We have removed information about external data source counts of birth due to their lack of comparability with MSDS figures. We are investigating a more robust and appropriate replacement, and will reinstate a comparison when this work is complete.
52% of deliveries were spontaneous
52% of deliveries were spontaneous vaginal births, 11% had instrumental assistance, 16% were elective caesarean sections and 21% were emergency caesarean sections.
Administrative Sources
Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS): this is a patient-level data set that captures information about activity carried out by Maternity Services relating to a mother and baby(s), from the point of the first booking appointment until mother and baby(s) are discharged from maternity services. This is a secondary uses data set, which re-uses clinical and operational data for purposes other than direct patient care.
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