Publication, Part of Statistics on Women's Smoking Status at Time of Delivery: England
Statistics on Women's Smoking Status at Time of Delivery: England, Quarter 4, 2022-23
Official statistics
Error in Quarter 3, 2022/23 data for Sub Integrated Care Board – 00N (South Tyneside)
Sub Integrated Care Board – 00N (South Tyneside) have informed us that their data for Q3 2022/23 is erroneous. This was due to local system errors and South Tyneside have been unable to obtain the correct data.
8 July 2024 15:17 PM
Women known to be smokers at time of delivery
Percentage known to be smokers by year
8.8% of pregnant women were known to be smokers at the time of delivery in 2022-2023.
This is a decrease from 9.1% in 2021-22 and from 12.9% in 2012-13.
The national ambition in the most recent Tobacco Control Plan (published in July 2017) was to achieve a level of 6% or less by 2022. A new Tobacco Control Plan was originally expected by the end of 2021, but has not yet been published and no publication date has been announced.
Percentage known to be smokers by Sub Integrated Care Board (Sub-ICB)
In quarter 4 of 2022-2023, the lowest proportions of women known to be smokers at time of delivery were in NHS North West London ICB - W2U3Z (3.8%), NHS South East London ICB - 72Q (4.1%) and NHS North East London ICB - A3A8R (4.6%) and NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB - 06L (4.7%)
9 Sub-ICBs had proportions above 15%. Those with the highest were NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB - 03H (21.2%), NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB - 03F (20.9%) and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - 00R (18.7%).
Data was received from all Sub-ICBs for quarter 4.
An additional visualisation of this data, including time series, is available at the link below:
Percentage known to be smokers by Sub Integrated Care Board, compared with the national ambition
In quarter 4 of 2022-2023, 11 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 6 Sub-ICBs outside of London.
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