Many thanks Alison, much appreciated
- as I thought, information about birth attendants is only available for
England. A frustrating lack of data if you are trying to make a case for the
importance of midwives!
All the best
Billie
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What United Kingdom?
Data for England are here.
http://www.hesonline.nhs.uk/Ease/servlet/ContentServer?siteID=1937&categoryID=1014
See comments on data quality.
Wales. It only has method of delivery, not person conducting it.
http://wales.gov.uk/docs/statistics/2009/090325sdr422009aen.pdf
Ditto for Scotland, although it is worth querying this with the ISD
contacts guiven on this web site
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/1019.html
In Northern Ireland, data are not routinely collated. See
BirthchoiceUK web site.
http://www.birthchoiceuk.com/BirthChoiceUKFrame.htm?http://www.birthchoiceuk.com/StatsExplain.htm
Good luck, Alison
Alison Macfarlane
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Sent: 23 July 2009 16:23
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Subject: query for UK researchers
Dear all
I’m struggling to find out the most recent figures for the
number of midwife attended births in the UK – does anyone know how to access
this information? It doesn’t seem to be held with all the usual Birth stats
information, but maybe I’m missing something!
Also – I need to reference the ‘old’ midwifery clinical
grades for an international journal paper. Again, does anyone know of a website
where this info is held – I can only find details of the new banding scale.
Many thanks in anticipation!
All the best
Billie
Billie Hunter
Professor of Midwifery
Institute for Health Research
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Swansea University
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