Publication, Part of Maternity Services Monthly Statistics
Maternity Services Monthly Statistics - December 2022, experimental statistics
Official statistics
Change to publication date
The NHS Digital website (digital.nhs.uk) will be making significant technical updates which require a 3-day content freeze from Monday 27 March to Wednesday 29 March, meaning no creation or publication of any content on the NHS Digital website will be possible. This has impacted our ability to create and pre-release this publication as planned and therefore we have moved this publication forward by one week, from 30 March to 23 March.
23 March 2023 09:30 AM
Births
Gestation length at birth
8% of babies were born premature
Delivery method
The decision on the method of delivery should take into account women's needs and preferences. Caesarean sections can be performed electively, or as an emergency where it is clinically required.
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.
Last edited: 10 July 2023 3:02 pm