Information is not held in the format requested. Information is available on the number of finished consultant delivery episodes at individual national health service health care providers.
The NHS trusts in London north west with a maternity department in at least one of their sites are: Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust; Ealing Hospital NHS Trust; West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust; Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust; North West London Hospitals NHS Trust; and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The information is shown in the following table.
NHS healthcare provider 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust 3,304 3,513 3,843 4,191 4,084 Ealing Hospital NHS Trust 2,788 2,924 2,680 2,973 3,016 West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust 3,396 3,375 2,015 3,782 3,924 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 4,572 4,847 6,004 5,208 5,336 Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust 0 0 0 * * North West London Hospitals NHS Trust 5,159 4,923 4,791 5,368 4,952 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust n/a n/a n/a 9,338 9,693 St. Mary's NHS Trust 4,204 4,438 4,390 n/a n/a Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust 4,580 4,776 4,783 n/a n/a Total 28,003 28,796 28,506 * * Notes: 1. A finished consultant episode (FCE) is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one health care provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which the FCE finishes. The episode types used for deliveries are “delivery episode” and “other delivery event”. 2. Assessing growth through time: HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures that may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and so no longer included in admitted patient HES data. 3. Data quality: HES are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts in England and from some independent sector organisations for activity commissioned by the English NHS. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain. 4. Small numbers: To protect patient confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been replaced with “*” (an asterisk). Where it was still possible to identify numbers from the total an additional number (the next smallest) has been replaced. In this case it has not been possible to suppress an additional number as all others have been published. For this reason the total has been suppressed so that the value of the replaced figure cannot be calculated. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care.