What position were you in when your baby was born?

Of those who had a vaginal delivery.

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	Sitting / Sitting supported by pillows	On my side	Standing, squatting or kneeling	Lying	Lying with my legs supported in stirrups	Other
ENGLAND	24.9%	4.9%	12.0%	30.1%	26.6%	1.5%
Airedale NHS Trust	21%	9%	18%	26%	24%	1%
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust	25%	7%	13%	31%	22%	0%
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust	25%	5%	5%	30%	34%	1%
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	27%	2%	15%	32%	22%	2%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	50%	1%	5%	23%	21%	0%
Barts and the London NHS Trust	24%	1%	3%	23%	44%	4%
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	24%	2%	3%	26%	43%	2%
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust	30%	3%	18%	21%	25%	2%
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust	22%	12%	23%	22%	19%	1%
Birmingham Women’s Health care NHS Trust	19%	5%	17%	24%	34%	1%
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust	31%	4%	8%	31%	24%	1%
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust	42%	4%	7%	24%	22%	2%
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	36%	5%	3%	40%	16%	1%
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust	21%	3%	20%	19%	35%	2%
Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust	25%	5%	3%	33%	32%	2%
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust	28%	6%	13%	32%	20%	0%
Burton Hospitals NHS Trust	25%	0%	6%	30%	38%	2%
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	28%	3%	14%	35%	19%	1%
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	16%	8%	23%	28%	23%	1%
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust	23%	3%	6%	28%	38%	2%
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	16%	2%	13%	36%	32%	1%
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	27%	3%	11%	27%	31%	2%
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	28%	4%	8%	21%	37%	2%
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	30%	2%	9%	22%	37%	1%
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	17%	4%	5%	36%	36%	1%
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	36%	6%	2%	41%	15%	0%
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	30%	4%	8%	32%	23%	4%
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	34%	5%	5%	33%	20%	2%
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	22%	2%	12%	32%	29%	3%
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust	28%	4%	15%	35%	14%	4%
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust	15%	7%	6%	39%	32%	0%
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	25%	5%	11%	36%	21%	1%
East Cheshire NHS Trust	23%	3%	16%	30%	26%	2%
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust	25%	4%	12%	32%	26%	2%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	40%	3%	4%	33%	17%	1%
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust	20%	4%	21%	26%	26%	2%
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	27%	6%	8%	32%	27%	0%
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust	35%	2%	8%	43%	11%	2%
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	19%	9%	13%	41%	16%	0%
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	29%	9%	5%	27%	31%	0%
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	26%	10%	3%	40%	20%	0%
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	23%	5%	15%	29%	27%	1%
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust (Former)	23%	6%	13%	22%	36%	1%
Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	18%	4%	26%	24%	27%	1%
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust	26%	5%	21%	17%	31%	1%
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	25%	6%	8%	27%	34%	1%
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust	27%	6%	5%	33%	28%	1%
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	20%	7%	24%	23%	26%	1%
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust	17%	8%	6%	44%	22%	3%
Hinchingbrooke Health care NHS Trust	18%	6%	15%	33%	26%	3%
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	30%	3%	8%	25%	34%	1%
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	25%	7%	14%	39%	12%	3%
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust	17%	1%	21%	37%	24%	0%
Isle Of Wight NHS PCT	23%	1%	17%	34%	22%	2%
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	26%	3%	10%	32%	26%	2%
Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust	26%	13%	6%	31%	21%	4%
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	18%	2%	31%	32%	14%	2%
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust	22%	10%	15%	32%	20%	0%
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	28%	1%	9%	46%	12%	3%
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	25%	5%	9%	36%	22%	2%
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust	33%	4%	8%	34%	21%	0%
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	24%	3%	7%	30%	35%	1%
Maidstone and Tunbridge wells NHS Trust	26%	5%	18%	13%	35%	3%
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust	25%	1%	9%	41%	21%	3%
Medway NHS Trust	27%	2%	17%	31%	21%	1%
Mid Essex Hospital services NHS Trust	23%	6%	22%	24%	21%	3%
Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	16%	7%	9%	42%	20%	6%
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	27%	7%	12%	38%	16%	1%
Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust	25%	3%	5%	27%	38%	1%
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust	28%	7%	1%	28%	35%	1%
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust	19%	9%	16%	23%	32%	1%
North Bristol NHS Trust	20%	13%	15%	24%	27%	1%
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	26%	2%	3%	42%	26%	1%
North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	25%	7%	15%	25%	27%	1%
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	23%	7%	0%	37%	31%	2%
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust	33%	5%	6%	36%	19%	1%
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	21%	3%	5%	25%	42%	3%
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	29%	8%	13%	31%	16%	2%
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust	21%	12%	20%	25%	20%	2%
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	26%	5%	5%	36%	28%	0%
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	28%	9%	10%	30%	20%	3%
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	24%	7%	9%	28%	31%	2%
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	30%	1%	9%	39%	20%	1%
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	36%	4%	7%	23%	29%	1%
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust	20%	9%	7%	25%	38%	0%
Poole Hospital NHS Trust	22%	4%	19%	24%	30%	1%
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust	19%	12%	15%	32%	20%	2%
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust	24%	5%	13%	34%	22%	1%
Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust	28%	4%	8%	31%	29%	0%
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	18%	2%	19%	28%	30%	3%
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	21%	3%	14%	28%	30%	3%
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust	14%	8%	17%	25%	35%	2%
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust	23%	5%	14%	21%	37%	0%
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust	17%	8%	20%	24%	30%	1%
Royal West Sussex NHS Trust	14%	4%	24%	33%	23%	2%
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust	32%	5%	14%	18%	28%	2%
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	27%	5%	12%	29%	27%	0%
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	28%	2%	2%	36%	30%	2%
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health care NHS Trust	31%	5%	11%	35%	17%	1%
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	29%	1%	10%	22%	36%	2%
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	19%	4%	8%	40%	29%	1%
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	31%	3%	12%	34%	19%	1%
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	17%	3%	30%	23%	21%	5%
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust	24%	5%	12%	29%	28%	1%
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust	24%	1%	14%	21%	40%	1%
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	23%	2%	10%	34%	31%	0%
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	18%	1%	22%	32%	25%	2%
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	21%	2%	16%	36%	24%	1%
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust	27%	1%	5%	39%	27%	0%
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust	29%	10%	8%	36%	16%	1%
St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust	34%	0%	3%	29%	34%	0%
St Mary's NHS Trust	13%	6%	15%	26%	35%	4%
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	21%	3%	29%	24%	17%	7%
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	22%	2%	13%	29%	34%	1%
Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust	18%	7%	11%	29%	34%	1%
Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust	26%	3%	6%	43%	23%	0%
Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust	17%	7%	25%	17%	32%	2%
The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust	27%	2%	11%	35%	26%	1%
The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust	30%	9%	2%	28%	28%	3%
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	29%	4%	18%	24%	24%	1%
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	27%	3%	11%	22%	36%	1%
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	30%	1%	16%	23%	29%	1%
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital king’s Lynn NHS Trust	24%	9%	9%	32%	26%	0%
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	30%	0%	4%	39%	26%	0%
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust	27%	5%	10%	36%	22%	0%
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust	16%	4%	10%	32%	37%	1%
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	41%	1%	13%	24%	19%	2%
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust	27%	9%	11%	30%	24%	0%
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust	23%	7%	12%	35%	20%	2%
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	21%	7%	20%	28%	22%	2%
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust	24%	2%	10%	36%	26%	1%
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust	28%	4%	15%	32%	21%	0%
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	24%	4%	5%	40%	27%	1%
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	15%	7%	19%	24%	33%	2%
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust	25%	14%	20%	27%	14%	0%
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust	29%	1%	3%	33%	32%	0%
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	15%	5%	26%	22%	31%	2%
West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	20%	8%	8%	33%	31%	0%
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust	28%	6%	12%	27%	25%	2%
Whips Cross University Hospital NHS Trust	25%	4%	2%	47%	21%	1%
Wiltshire PCT	29%	3%	19%	27%	18%	4%
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	22%	3%	18%	21%	32%	4%
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	35%	9%	5%	22%	28%	0%
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	23%	5%	12%	27%	32%	2%
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust	14%	5%	30%	16%	31%	5%
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust	32%	7%	0%	31%	29%	1%
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	21%	9%	14%	22%	35%	0%
York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	28%	8%	12%	25%	25%	2%
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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