Publication, Part of Maternity Services Monthly Statistics
Maternity Services Monthly Statistics, October 2022, experimental statistics
Official statistics
Data quality note - Identification of vaginal birth after previous caesarean delivery
Some figures for the CQIMVBAC metric (women who gave birth to a baby vaginally after a previous caesarean section) have been amended and reissued in this publication, following an improvement to the construction of this metric.
Previously a small number of first-time births were being considered in this metric due to some inconsistencies in the recording of the number of a woman’s previous births. For this metric, we now disregard any pregnancies where the count of previous births is amended after the labour and delivery.
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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.
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