Overall, thinking about the postnatal care you received in hospital after the birth of your baby, were you given the information or explanations you needed?

Of those who received care in hospital after the birth. Results from North Cumbria excluded.

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	Yes, always	Yes, sometimes	No
ENGLAND	58.0%	31.0%	11.0%
Airedale NHS Trust	57%	34%	8%
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	29%	4%
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust	69%	27%	4%
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	32%	3%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	70%	25%	4%
Barts and the London NHS Trust	73%	23%	4%
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	68%	24%	8%
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust	69%	24%	7%
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust	71%	24%	6%
Birmingham Women’s Health care NHS Trust	72%	26%	2%
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust	62%	28%	9%
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	27%	9%
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	65%	26%	10%
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust	64%	29%	7%
Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	36%	7%
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust	70%	24%	5%
Burton Hospitals NHS Trust	70%	25%	5%
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	66%	29%	5%
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	31%	8%
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust	68%	25%	7%
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	55%	35%	9%
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	63%	25%	11%
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	67%	29%	4%
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	60%	32%	8%
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	58%	30%	13%
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	53%	39%	8%
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	60%	28%	12%
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	70%	23%	7%
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	59%	33%	9%
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	28%	7%
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust	55%	38%	8%
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	62%	27%	10%
East Cheshire NHS Trust	58%	33%	9%
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	34%	9%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	27%	8%
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	25%	8%
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	67%	26%	7%
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust	64%	26%	10%
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	61%	29%	11%
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	64%	30%	6%
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	66%	25%	8%
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	62%	27%	11%
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust (Former)	61%	28%	11%
Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	59%	32%	9%
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust	71%	20%	9%
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	67%	20%	14%
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust	66%	25%	10%
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	64%	32%	5%
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust	58%	34%	8%
Hinchingbrooke Health care NHS Trust	61%	31%	7%
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	56%	33%	10%
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	28%	9%
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust	53%	37%	10%
Isle Of Wight NHS PCT	64%	29%	7%
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	64%	25%	11%
Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust	63%	28%	9%
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	64%	29%	6%
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust	57%	34%	9%
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	63%	27%	10%
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	29%	11%
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust	58%	32%	10%
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	54%	31%	15%
Maidstone and Tunbridge wells NHS Trust	63%	26%	11%
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust	66%	29%	5%
Medway NHS Trust	58%	34%	8%
Mid Essex Hospital services NHS Trust	56%	29%	15%
Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	61%	31%	9%
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	58%	31%	11%
Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust	57%	29%	14%
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust	60%	29%	11%
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust	55%	34%	11%
North Bristol NHS Trust	47%	37%	16%
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	27%	8%
North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	52%	39%	9%
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	62%	29%	9%
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust	54%	33%	13%
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	53%	34%	13%
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	56%	31%	12%
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust	57%	31%	12%
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	64%	22%	14%
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	60%	30%	10%
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	54%	31%	15%
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	47%	37%	15%
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	29%	10%
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	29%	14%
Poole Hospital NHS Trust	51%	35%	15%
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust	66%	24%	10%
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust	61%	30%	9%
Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust	60%	28%	13%
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	65%	27%	8%
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	61%	30%	9%
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust	60%	31%	9%
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust	63%	29%	8%
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust	48%	38%	14%
Royal West Sussex NHS Trust	54%	34%	12%
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust	57%	30%	13%
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	53%	33%	14%
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	30%	9%
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health care NHS Trust	57%	30%	14%
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	58%	29%	12%
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	57%	32%	11%
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	56%	36%	8%
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	53%	33%	13%
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	29%	11%
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust	53%	34%	13%
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	58%	25%	17%
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	54%	33%	13%
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	53%	34%	12%
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust	62%	26%	12%
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust	62%	28%	10%
St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	30%	7%
St Mary's NHS Trust	57%	32%	11%
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	51%	40%	9%
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	41%	48%	12%
Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust	51%	35%	14%
Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust	50%	34%	16%
Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust	58%	30%	12%
The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust	55%	34%	12%
The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust	63%	27%	10%
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	53%	30%	17%
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	59%	29%	12%
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	61%	28%	12%
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital king’s Lynn NHS Trust	62%	26%	13%
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	55%	30%	14%
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust	48%	35%	17%
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust	61%	26%	13%
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	51%	38%	12%
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust	51%	32%	16%
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust	44%	40%	16%
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	56%	35%	9%
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust	57%	30%	14%
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust	59%	27%	14%
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	51%	36%	13%
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	48%	32%	20%
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust	50%	36%	14%
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust	44%	36%	19%
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	45%	44%	11%
West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	42%	40%	17%
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust	47%	32%	21%
Whips Cross University Hospital NHS Trust	40%	42%	18%
Wiltshire PCT	35%	51%	14%
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	49%	32%	19%
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	46%	39%	15%
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	40%	37%	23%
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust	49%	32%	18%
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust	31%	41%	27%
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	24%	46%	30%
York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
Weston Area Health NHS Trust
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust