During your labour and birth, did you feel you got the pain relief you wanted?

Of those who had a labour.

Results of a survey carried out by the Healthcare Commission to find out what women think about the maternity care they have received.

	Significantly a lot above the average for England.
	Significantly above the average for England.
	Not significantly different from the average for England.
	Significantly below the average for England.
	Significantly a lot below the average for England.
See bottom of page for notes on statistical significance.

Trust	Yes, definitely	Yes, to some extent	No
ENGLAND	63.8%	27.9%	8.3%
Airedale NHS Trust	79%	17%	5%
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust	53%	25%	22%
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust	49%	39%	12%
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	24%	11%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	62%	30%	8%
Barts and the London NHS Trust	50%	38%	12%
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	64%	26%	10%
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust	67%	29%	4%
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust	64%	30%	6%
Birmingham Women’s Health care NHS Trust	58%	29%	13%
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	30%	11%
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	29%	8%
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	64%	26%	11%
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	32%	8%
Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust	56%	28%	16%
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	35%	7%
Burton Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	27%	6%
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	69%	23%	8%
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	67%	24%	9%
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	33%	9%
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	62%	32%	6%
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	56%	30%	15%
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	76%	21%	4%
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	63%	23%	14%
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	67%	27%	6%
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	63%	30%	7%
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	66%	28%	7%
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	64%	23%	13%
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	72%	24%	4%
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust	56%	37%	7%
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust	58%	31%	11%
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	64%	29%	7%
East Cheshire NHS Trust	67%	25%	8%
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust	68%	27%	5%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	64%	31%	5%
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust	70%	24%	6%
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	71%	20%	9%
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust	65%	29%	6%
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	67%	26%	7%
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	64%	25%	11%
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	62%	29%	9%
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	65%	28%	7%
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust (Former)	55%	30%	15%
Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	63%	28%	9%
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	30%	6%
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	66%	26%	8%
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust	53%	34%	13%
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	71%	23%	7%
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust	56%	35%	8%
Hinchingbrooke Health care NHS Trust	68%	23%	9%
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	68%	24%	8%
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	24%	9%
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust	68%	28%	4%
Isle Of Wight NHS PCT	68%	30%	3%
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	68%	25%	7%
Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust	63%	25%	11%
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	61%	27%	12%
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust	62%	25%	13%
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	28%	11%
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	32%	9%
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust	64%	28%	7%
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	69%	21%	11%
Maidstone and Tunbridge wells NHS Trust	67%	26%	8%
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust	44%	46%	9%
Medway NHS Trust	71%	22%	8%
Mid Essex Hospital services NHS Trust	69%	24%	7%
Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	32%	9%
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	72%	23%	5%
Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust	64%	27%	9%
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust	51%	37%	11%
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust	59%	32%	9%
North Bristol NHS Trust	60%	31%	9%
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	62%	28%	10%
North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	73%	24%	3%
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	46%	36%	18%
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust	74%	14%	12%
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	61%	31%	8%
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	54%	34%	12%
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust	76%	20%	3%
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	31%	8%
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	70%	22%	9%
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	62%	26%	13%
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	58%	29%	13%
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	69%	20%	10%
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	31%	6%
Poole Hospital NHS Trust	66%	28%	6%
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust	70%	27%	3%
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust	58%	31%	11%
Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust	54%	30%	16%
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	58%	33%	9%
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	69%	24%	7%
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust	59%	38%	3%
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust	54%	34%	12%
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust	67%	26%	7%
Royal West Sussex NHS Trust	73%	20%	7%
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust	73%	20%	8%
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	59%	35%	6%
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	30%	7%
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health care NHS Trust	59%	33%	8%
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	69%	24%	7%
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	66%	26%	8%
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	70%	23%	7%
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	71%	25%	5%
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	25%	8%
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust	68%	26%	5%
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	27%	6%
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	66%	24%	10%
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	73%	20%	8%
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust	66%	28%	6%
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust	60%	27%	13%
St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	29%	9%
St Mary's NHS Trust	68%	23%	9%
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	71%	23%	6%
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	56%	37%	7%
Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust	72%	24%	4%
Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust	73%	22%	5%
Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust	57%	32%	11%
The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust	54%	41%	5%
The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust	54%	36%	10%
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	56%	29%	15%
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	68%	24%	9%
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	66%	27%	6%
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital king’s Lynn NHS Trust	57%	32%	11%
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	60%	36%	4%
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	28%	13%
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust	66%	25%	8%
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	63%	30%	7%
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust	66%	27%	7%
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust	72%	25%	3%
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	57%	30%	13%
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust	66%	28%	6%
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust	61%	25%	14%
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	67%	23%	10%
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	62%	30%	8%
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust	63%	28%	9%
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust	68%	28%	4%
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	30%	8%
West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	66%	26%	8%
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust	62%	37%	2%
Whips Cross University Hospital NHS Trust	66%	23%	11%
Wiltshire PCT	65%	25%	10%
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	65%	29%	6%
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	73%	19%	8%
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	62%	31%	7%
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust	62%	30%	7%
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust	73%	27%	0%
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	72%	25%	4%
York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	58%	34%	8%
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
Weston Area Health NHS Trust
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Notes on Statistical Significance

Because the sample sizes are quite small, a number that deviates from the average for England is not necessarily statistically significantly different from the English average.
Two trusts may show the same percentage response, but it is possible that only one of them is marked as significantly different to the English average. This is because the survey sample size varies with trust.
This data should not be used to rank trusts (generate league tables) as the precise ordering can not be ascertained due to the inherent inaccuracies of small sample surveys.

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