If you had an episiotomy (cut) or tear requiring stitches, how long after your baby was born were the stitches done?

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.
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.

Trust	Within 20 minutes	20 minutes to 1 hour	More than 1 hour
ENGLAND	58.6%	29.2%	12.2%
Airedale NHS Trust	63%	30%	7%
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust	43%	39%	18%
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	29%	6%
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	48%	37%	14%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	89%	8%	2%
Barts and the London NHS Trust	66%	23%	12%
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	63%	25%	12%
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust	46%	45%	9%
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust	73%	23%	5%
Birmingham Women’s Health care NHS Trust	65%	24%	11%
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	22%	11%
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust	69%	20%	11%
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	78%	15%	8%
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust	52%	25%	23%
Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust	54%	36%	11%
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust	55%	28%	16%
Burton Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	26%	17%
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	74%	16%	10%
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	56%	29%	15%
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust	61%	21%	18%
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	51%	34%	15%
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	60%	30%	10%
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	58%	29%	13%
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	67%	27%	6%
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	68%	23%	9%
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	76%	15%	8%
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	40%	42%	18%
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	27%	12%
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	61%	31%	7%
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust	62%	19%	19%
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust	74%	23%	3%
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	67%	23%	10%
East Cheshire NHS Trust	53%	37%	10%
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	27%	15%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	54%	35%	10%
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	27%	12%
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	56%	36%	8%
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust	49%	41%	10%
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	25%	45%	30%
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	76%	20%	4%
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	75%	23%	1%
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	69%	21%	10%
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust (Former)	52%	32%	17%
Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	41%	48%	11%
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust	73%	16%	11%
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	57%	33%	10%
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust	40%	40%	20%
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	57%	31%	12%
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust	49%	27%	24%
Hinchingbrooke Health care NHS Trust	64%	31%	5%
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	46%	35%	19%
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	75%	19%	6%
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust	65%	27%	7%
Isle Of Wight NHS PCT	70%	26%	4%
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	58%	22%	20%
Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust	56%	36%	8%
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	43%	35%	22%
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust	55%	35%	10%
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	72%	20%	8%
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	24%	10%
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust	66%	28%	6%
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	63%	26%	11%
Maidstone and Tunbridge wells NHS Trust	55%	27%	18%
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust	48%	32%	20%
Medway NHS Trust	46%	31%	23%
Mid Essex Hospital services NHS Trust	66%	27%	7%
Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	66%	19%	15%
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	45%	33%	22%
Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust	51%	25%	24%
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust	52%	29%	19%
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust	56%	28%	16%
North Bristol NHS Trust	51%	36%	12%
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	29%	8%
North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	31%	11%
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	49%	37%	14%
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust	44%	42%	14%
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	70%	15%	14%
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	52%	32%	16%
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust	54%	31%	15%
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	71%	20%	10%
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	72%	17%	12%
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	58%	32%	11%
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	61%	31%	8%
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	54%	31%	15%
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust	71%	21%	8%
Poole Hospital NHS Trust	61%	29%	10%
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust	46%	29%	24%
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust	57%	28%	15%
Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust	50%	33%	17%
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	57%	27%	15%
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	29%	6%
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust	55%	35%	10%
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust	48%	38%	14%
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust	53%	40%	6%
Royal West Sussex NHS Trust	68%	24%	8%
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust	69%	28%	3%
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	59%	25%	16%
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	51%	38%	11%
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health care NHS Trust	50%	32%	18%
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	60%	28%	12%
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	55%	34%	11%
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	60%	31%	9%
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	63%	27%	10%
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust	78%	14%	8%
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	51%	41%	8%
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	53%	30%	17%
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	57%	28%	15%
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust	71%	24%	5%
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust	49%	37%	14%
St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust	74%	18%	8%
St Mary's NHS Trust	48%	48%	4%
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	49%	38%	13%
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	57%	30%	13%
Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust	58%	28%	14%
Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust	69%	21%	10%
Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust	60%	28%	12%
The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust	68%	22%	10%
The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust	49%	37%	15%
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	46%	40%	14%
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	30%	9%
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	53%	35%	12%
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital king’s Lynn NHS Trust	59%	32%	10%
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	87%	10%	3%
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust	45%	28%	27%
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust	57%	31%	12%
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	66%	20%	13%
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust	47%	42%	11%
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust	51%	34%	15%
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	49%	39%	12%
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust	49%	42%	9%
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust	53%	32%	14%
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	47%	40%	13%
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	52%	30%	18%
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust	72%	24%	3%
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust	80%	18%	2%
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	48%	38%	14%
West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	58%	28%	14%
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust	52%	25%	23%
Whips Cross University Hospital NHS Trust	48%	24%	28%
Wiltshire PCT	67%	22%	11%
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	59%	32%	9%
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	58%	39%	3%
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	46%	30%	24%
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust	55%	36%	9%
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust	62%	29%	9%
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	48%	35%	17%
York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	32%	7%
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
Weston Area Health NHS Trust
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust