Publication, Part of Maternity Services Monthly Statistics
Maternity Services Monthly Statistics, July 2022, experimental statistics
Official statistics
Establishment of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) / Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs), and abolition of CCGs and STPs, as of July 2022
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) were formally established across the NHS in England on 1 July 2022, with the introduction of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs), and abolition of CCGs.
Further information around the introduction of ICBs and ICPs is available via the relevant Organisation Data Service (ODS) page here.
The derivations necessary to support reporting under the new commissioning structures have been completed and this publication has now been updated to include ICB (LMNS) and sub-ICB breakdowns in the CSV Data and Measures files.
27 January 2023 09:30 AM
Data quality note - BMI recording
Following the identification of a data quality issue in the BMI_14+1Wks measure in this publication which was leading to some women being incorrectly assigned to higher BMI categories than they should have been, we have updated the construction of this measure to correct for this. More information about this updated logic can be found in the accompanying Metadata file.
This data quality issue led to some incorrect BMI_14+1Wks figure originally being reported in this July data. This has now been corrected and this publication has been updated to include revised BMI figures in the Measures file.
27 January 2023 09:30 AM
Babies
Birth Weight
Where birth weight is recorded, 4% of term babies had a birth weight of less than 2,500 grams.
The World Health Organisation defines low birth weight as less than 2,500g.
Skin-to-skin contact
It is recommended that mothers have skin-to-skin contact with their babies after birth to promote the initiation of breastfeeding and protect against the negative effects of mother-baby separation. The MSDS receives data on whether a mother had skin-to-skin contact with their baby within one hour of birth.
Babies' first feed
Breastfeeding contributes to the health of both the mother and child in the short and longer term and it is recommended that women should be made aware of these benefits. The MSDS records whether a baby's first feed was maternal breast milk, donor breast milk or not breast milk.
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: 26 January 2023 4:35 pm