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Midwives

Volume 308: debated on Tuesday 17 March 1998

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Mrs. Ballard

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by health authority area the number of midwives per 1,000 deliveries. [32828]

Mr. Boateng

[holding answer 4 March 1998]: The number of midwives per 1,000 maternities (used as a proxy for deliveries, and defined as pregnancies resulting in the birth of one or more live or stillborn children) for each health authority in England is shown in the table. The figures should be interpreted with caution as midwives work across health authority boundaries.

National health service hospital and community health services registered midwives working in the maternity area of work per 1,000 maternities by health authority, England 1996
Health authorityMidwives per 1,000 maternities
England30
Anglia & Oxford26
Bedfordshire24
Berkshire23
Buckinghamshire25
Cambridge & Huntingdon25
East Norfolk25
North West Anglia25
Northamptonshire29
Oxfordshire33
Suffolk24
North Thames26
Barking & Havering23
Barnet18
Brent & Harrow22
Camden & Islington29
Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow16
East & North Hertfordshire24
East London & The City28
Enfield & Haringey23
Hillingdon59
Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster50
North Essex26
Redbridge & Waltham Forest29
South Essex22
West Hertfordshire16
North West38
Bury & Rochdale35
East Lancashire35
Liverpool37

National health service hospital and community health services registered midwives working in the maternity area of work per 1,000 maternities by health authority, England 1996

Health authority

Midwives per 1,000 maternities

Manchester63
Morecambe Bay28
North Cheshire30
North West Lancashire54
Salford & Trafford55
Sefton49
South Cheshire30
South Lancashire27
St Helens & Knowsley22
Stockport84
West Pennine28
Wigan & Bolton25
Wirral41

Northern & Yorkshire

35
Bradford40
Calderdale & Kirklees30
County Durham26
East Riding32
Gateshead & South Tyneside38
Leeds29
Newcastle & North Tyneside45
North Cumbria32
North Yorkshire31
Northumberland21
South Humber45
Sunderland34
Tees32
Wakefield38

South and West

32
Avon30
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly35
Dorset28
Gloucestershire32
Isle of Wight33
North & East Devon36
North & Mid Hampshire23
Portsmouth & SE Hampshire33
Somerset29
South & West Devon40
Southampton & SW Hampshire27
Wiltshire45

South Thames

25
Bexley & Greenwich32
Bromley25
Croydon28
East Kent26
East Surrey25
East Sussex, Brighton & Hove15
Kingston & Richmond0
Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham22
Merton Sutton & Wandsworth41
West Kent31
West Surrey15
West Sussex30

Trent

28
Barnsley30
Doncaster38
Leicestershire27
Lincolnshire21
North Derbyshire35
North Nottinghamshire27
Nottingham34
Rotherham28
Sheffield40
South Derbyshire23

National health service hospital and community health services registered midwives working in the maternity area of work per 1,000 maternities by health authority, England 1996

Health authority

Midwives per 1,000 maternities

West Midlands

30
Birmingham36
Coventry37
Dudley35
Herefordshire30
North Staffordshire34
Sandwell24
Shropshire29
Solihull0
South Staffordshire29
Walsall40
Warwickshire29
Wolverhampton2
Worcester & District35

Notes:

  • 1. Maternities are defined as the number of pregnancies which resulted in the birth of one or more live or stillborn children.
  • 2. Maternities are attributed to the health authority covering the mothers usual area of residence.
  • 3. Midwives are attributed to the health authority area within which the NHS trust that employs them falls.
  • 4. The figures in the table should be interpreted with caution as it is possible for midwives to serve a population which is different from that of the health authority to which they are attributed.

    • Source:

    Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census Office for National Statistics.