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Additional analysis of home and water births, elective and emergency caesareans

Additional analysis of home births, water births and elective and emergency caesareans, England, April 2019 to June 2022, from the Maternity Services Dataset (MSDS).
Date published:
3 April 2024

Request received

The monthly number of elective and emergency caesareans, home births and use of birthing pools, and data completion/submission rates, England, April 2019 to June 2022.

Our response

In our response, we provided the count of monthly deliveries, emergency caesareans and elective caesareans, home births, deliveries in birthing pools, the percentage of these from total deliveries, and the total number of trusts expected to submit Maternity Services Dataset (MSDS) data and the total number of trusts submitting data on bookings and births, England, April 2019 to June 2022.

Further data is available from the Maternity Services Monthly statistics publication

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Last edited: 3 April 2024 8:47 am