Information is not available on the number of deliveries by maternity unit. The following table has provisional information for 2006-07 on the number of deliveries in national health service hospitals by NHS provider.
Deliveries South Staffordshire PCT 351 Berkshire East PCT 192 Gloucestershire PCT 145 Wiltshire PCT 4,729 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT 401 Devon PCT 486 Isle of Wight NHS PCT 1,192 Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust 3,178 Weston Area Health NHS Trust 547 Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 1,325 United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust 5,013 South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 2,221 Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 5,746 Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 3,580 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust 3,227 North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust 3,868 The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust 3,843 Kingston Hospital NHS Trust 4,943 Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust 2,841 West Dorset General Hospitals NHS Trust 1,957 Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust 4,617 Wirral Hospital NHS Trust 3,425 St. Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust 3,002 The Cardiothoracic Centre—Liverpool NHS Trust * The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust 2,753 Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust 1,507 Bedford Hospital NHS Trust 2,984 Ealing Hospital NHS Trust 2,680 Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 4,278 York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3,242 Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health Care NHS Trust 3,342 Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust 1,713 Airedale NHS Trust 2,394 The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Trust 2,186 Poole Hospital NHS Trust 3,993 Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Trust 5,181 Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust 3,232 Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 4,304 Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust 3,489 Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 3,946 The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 474 South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust 1,488 Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust 3,492 Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust 7,994 Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust * Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust 9,145 Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2,571 The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust 2,685 Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2,858 West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust 2,015 Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust 4,047 Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust 3,678 Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust 4,853 Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3,740 James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2,079 Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust 3,383 West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust 2,298 Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 5,476 Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust 2,774 Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust 2,939 Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust 5,038 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 6,530 Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust 5,188 Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 5,336 Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 6,382 The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust 3,424 St Mary’s NHS Trust 4,390 Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust 4,713 St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust 4,851 South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust 2,516 Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust 2,377 University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust 5,522 Burton Hospitals NHS Trust 3,160 Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 4,398 East Cheshire NHS Trust 1,988 Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 3,297 King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 4,910 Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2,668 Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust 4,313 University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS 5,160 The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust 3,489 The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust 3,579 City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust 3,430 Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust 1,795 George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust 2,536 Birmingham Women’s Health Care NHS Trust 6,761 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust 5,433 University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust 2,065 Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust 2,844 Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust 1,377 Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust 4,097 Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust 2,625 Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust 2,999 Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust 3,724 Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust 2,659 Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust 2,985 Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust 4,193 Newham University Hospital NHS Trust 5,825 Barts and The London NHS Trust 4,150 North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 2,990 Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust 3,829 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust 4,130 Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust 2,249 Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 5,022 Medway NHS Trust 4,304 Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust 2,506 Royal West Sussex NHS Trust 2,509 Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust * Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust 3,476 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 6,004 Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust 4,783 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 2,334 The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust 3,228 Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 5,679 Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust 10,486 Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust 1,764 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 8,786 Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust 2,793 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 5,567 The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 5,494 Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 5,681 Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 3,730 Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 5,304 Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust 8,908 Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust 3,905 Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust 4,062 South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust 5,025 University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust 3,340 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust 4,791 North Bristol NHS Trust 5,279 Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 6,887 Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust 4,843 East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust 6,055 North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust 3,727 Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust 3,022 Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospital NHS Trust 4,996 Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 10,366 Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust 5,384 United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust 5,294 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 9,550 Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 4,979 West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust 5,423 East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust 6,084 Stockport NHS Foundation Trust 3,514 Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 5,611 North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust 3,051 Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust 5,441 Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust 10,105 East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust 3,836 Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust 6,189 Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust 5,151 Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust 5,925 Blackpool, Fylde And Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust 6,226 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 4,595 County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust 5,729 Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust 5,474 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust 6,222 Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust 4,796 Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust * Total 629,207 Note: Due to reasons of confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been suppressed and replaced with *. Where it was possible to identify numbers from the total due to a single suppressed number in a row or column, an additional smallest number have been suppressed in order to protect patient confidentiality. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care
Information is not available in the format requested.
However in our publication, ‘Maternity Matters: Choice, Access and Continuity of Care in a Safe Service’, we estimated that around 16 per cent. of all pregnant women, including many under 18 years of age, delay seeking maternity care until they are five months or more pregnant. A copy of the document is available in the Library.