Thinking about the birth of your baby, what kind of delivery did you have?

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	Normal (vaginal) birth	Delivery using forceps	Delivery using a vacuum cap	A caesarean (through a cut in the abdomen into the womb)
ENGLAND	63.5%	4.7%	7.5%	24.3%
Airedale NHS Trust	60%	3%	11%	26%
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust	62%	6%	10%	22%
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust	66%	3%	7%	24%
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	2%	10%	25%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	72%	5%	9%	14%
Barts and the London NHS Trust	65%	2%	12%	22%
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	1%	8%	31%
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust	58%	7%	11%	25%
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust	66%	8%	5%	21%
Birmingham Women’s Health care NHS Trust	58%	6%	9%	27%
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust	62%	3%	6%	29%
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust	66%	3%	11%	20%
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	11%	4%	24%
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	6%	13%	22%
Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust	62%	1%	8%	29%
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust	69%	3%	7%	21%
Burton Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	2%	14%	26%
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	64%	8%	3%	24%
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	59%	7%	4%	30%
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust	61%	10%	6%	22%
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	61%	7%	9%	23%
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	69%	6%	3%	21%
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	61%	6%	11%	23%
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	58%	9%	11%	23%
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	55%	5%	9%	30%
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	66%	2%	4%	27%
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	62%	8%	7%	22%
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	67%	4%	7%	21%
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	60%	1%	10%	29%
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust	68%	2%	3%	27%
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust	61%	3%	10%	26%
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	65%	4%	6%	25%
East Cheshire NHS Trust	69%	1%	10%	20%
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	6%	7%	29%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	1%	6%	26%
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust	66%	2%	5%	26%
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	61%	6%	11%	23%
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust	72%	2%	5%	21%
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	68%	2%	7%	23%
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	60%	7%	14%	19%
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	67%	1%	7%	25%
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	60%	6%	8%	26%
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust (Former)	60%	2%	8%	30%
Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	71%	3%	4%	22%
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	5%	11%	24%
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	66%	8%	2%	24%
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust	64%	2%	8%	26%
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	62%	5%	9%	24%
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust	64%	1%	8%	27%
Hinchingbrooke Health care NHS Trust	64%	6%	4%	26%
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	72%	2%	5%	21%
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	69%	5%	3%	23%
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust	64%	4%	8%	23%
Isle Of Wight NHS PCT	58%	8%	6%	29%
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	4%	5%	30%
Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust	70%	4%	10%	16%
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	72%	1%	8%	19%
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust	64%	1%	12%	23%
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	72%	2%	3%	22%
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	9%	5%	23%
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust	56%	9%	4%	30%
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	57%	8%	13%	22%
Maidstone and Tunbridge wells NHS Trust	59%	5%	10%	27%
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust	64%	2%	6%	28%
Medway NHS Trust	73%	3%	4%	20%
Mid Essex Hospital services NHS Trust	65%	6%	5%	25%
Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	70%	3%	10%	17%
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	4%	2%	27%
Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust	69%	6%	2%	23%
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust	59%	2%	7%	32%
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust	60%	6%	11%	22%
North Bristol NHS Trust	61%	3%	8%	28%
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	3%	9%	29%
North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	68%	2%	7%	24%
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	67%	0%	5%	28%
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust	62%	8%	8%	23%
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	64%	7%	7%	22%
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	67%	2%	8%	23%
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust	62%	2%	5%	31%
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	3%	10%	26%
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	65%	3%	9%	23%
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	64%	8%	8%	19%
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	64%	3%	4%	29%
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	65%	6%	12%	17%
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	4%	11%	22%
Poole Hospital NHS Trust	56%	11%	7%	27%
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	5%	4%	28%
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust	70%	3%	10%	17%
Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust	59%	2%	11%	28%
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	49%	12%	6%	33%
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	68%	5%	9%	18%
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust	58%	6%	9%	27%
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust	65%	2%	9%	24%
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust	62%	2%	14%	22%
Royal West Sussex NHS Trust	63%	7%	6%	25%
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust	64%	7%	4%	25%
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	58%	10%	9%	23%
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	4%	3%	34%
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health care NHS Trust	76%	3%	4%	17%
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	57%	8%	11%	25%
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	68%	5%	11%	16%
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	78%	8%	2%	12%
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	64%	3%	9%	24%
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	1%	9%	25%
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust	65%	3%	12%	20%
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	3%	14%	26%
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	11%	4%	25%
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	62%	3%	8%	28%
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust	66%	6%	9%	20%
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust	63%	1%	6%	30%
St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust	56%	5%	7%	32%
St Mary's NHS Trust	57%	3%	14%	27%
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	67%	5%	3%	25%
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	48%	4%	10%	39%
Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust	63%	2%	8%	27%
Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust	75%	1%	6%	19%
Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust	64%	9%	7%	20%
The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust	60%	3%	14%	22%
The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust	64%	2%	6%	28%
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	61%	7%	4%	28%
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	50%	12%	8%	29%
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	65%	2%	5%	28%
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital king’s Lynn NHS Trust	59%	9%	7%	25%
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	72%	3%	9%	15%
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	6%	6%	31%
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust	66%	6%	12%	15%
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	72%	2%	4%	22%
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust	64%	4%	9%	23%
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust	70%	5%	5%	19%
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	68%	4%	5%	23%
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust	64%	2%	8%	26%
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust	64%	6%	1%	30%
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	69%	4%	8%	19%
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	62%	7%	8%	22%
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust	68%	6%	7%	19%
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust	53%	5%	6%	36%
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	61%	4%	9%	25%
West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	64%	7%	10%	19%
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust	64%	7%	5%	24%
Whips Cross University Hospital NHS Trust	70%	2%	4%	24%
Wiltshire PCT	69%	5%	6%	20%
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	54%	13%	7%	26%
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	68%	8%	8%	17%
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	71%	2%	4%	22%
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	5%	12%	25%
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust	60%	4%	12%	23%
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	65%	6%	2%	26%
York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	66%	9%	2%	23%
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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