Statistics on Women's Smoking Status at Time of Delivery: England, Quarter 2, 2021-22

9.0% of pregnant women were known to be smokers at the time of delivery during quarter 2 of 2021-2022.

The percentage between quarter 2 and quarter 1 remained similar,

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

In quarter 2 of 2021/2022, the lowest proportions of women known to be smokers at time of delivery were in NHS West Essex CCG (2.0%), NHS North West London CCG (2.9%) and NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG (3.3%).

7 CCGs had proportions above 15%. Those with the highest were NHS North East Lincolnshire CCG (20.0%), NHS Blackpool CCG (19.3%) and NHS Greater Preston CCG (17.0%).

Data was received from all CCG's.

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

In quarter 2 of 2021/2022, 15 out of 106 submitting CCGs met the national ambition of 6% or less.

In the London NHS England region, it was achieved by all 5 CCGs, but only by 10 CCGs outside of London.