Statistics on Women's Smoking Status at Time of Delivery: England, Quarter 3, 2022-23

8.6% of pregnant women were known to be smokers at the time of delivery during quarter 3 of 2022-2023.

This is a decrease from 9.1% in the previous quarter (Q2).

The current national ambition is to achieve a level of 6% or less by 2022.

In quarter 3 of 2022/23, the lowest proportions of women known to be smokers at time of delivery were in NHS North West London ICB - W2U3Z (3.2%), NHS South East London ICB - 72Q (4.3%) and NHS North East London ICB - A3A8R (4.3%).

6 Sub-ICBs had proportions above 15%. Those with the highest were NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB - 00N (25.6%), NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - 00R (19.6%) and NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB - 03H (19.4%).

Data was received from all CCGs for quarter 3.

An additional visualisation of this data, including time series, is available at the link below:

In quarter 3 of 2022/23, 9 out of 106 submitting Sub-ICBs met the national ambition of 6% or less.

In the London NHS England region, it was achieved by 5 out of 5 Sub-ICBs, but only by 4 Sub-ICBs outside of London.