FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/00941
- Request Date
- May 3, 2016
- Subject
- Maternity Statistics
- Description
All information should be broken down in years – 2014, 2015 and for 2016 up until the date this request was received.
- How many women gave birth alone without the assistance of a midwife?
- How many women gave birth outside of a maternity ward? Where did those women give birth (i.e. ambulances, A&E departments, corridors)?
- How many women gave birth using stirrups?
- Response
Year 2014 Patients Born Before Arrival 3 Without midwife presence 33 in ambulance 1 in midwifery unit entrance 2 Lithotomy 476 Year 2015 Patients Born Before Arrival 4 Without midwife presence 25 Outside hospital in the car park/car 2 in midwifery unit entrance 2 Lithotomy 507 Year 2016 Patients Jan to Mar Born Before Arrival 3 Jan – Mar without midwife presence 2 Lithotomy 150