In the first few days after the birth how was your baby fed?

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	Breast milk (or expressed breast milk) only	Both breast and formula (bottle) milk	Formula (bottle) milk only
ENGLAND	57.7%	18.4%	23.8%
Airedale NHS Trust	58%	19%	23%
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust	50%	30%	20%
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust	34%	39%	27%
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	20%	17%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	60%	10%	30%
Barts and the London NHS Trust	42%	40%	18%
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	52%	22%	26%
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust	65%	13%	22%
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust	54%	24%	22%
Birmingham Women’s Health care NHS Trust	58%	20%	22%
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust	41%	13%	46%
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust	48%	12%	40%
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	16%	23%
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust	71%	11%	17%
Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	23%	20%
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	18%	18%
Burton Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	15%	28%
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	68%	13%	19%
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	66%	20%	14%
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	21%	20%
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	76%	12%	12%
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	63%	15%	22%
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	42%	15%	44%
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	51%	15%	35%
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	45%	21%	34%
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	56%	14%	31%
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	66%	12%	22%
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	46%	19%	34%
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	74%	12%	13%
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust	52%	13%	34%
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust	56%	34%	9%
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	63%	14%	23%
East Cheshire NHS Trust	64%	15%	22%
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	16%	25%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	16%	22%
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	18%	17%
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	21%	16%
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust	50%	25%	25%
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	51%	29%	19%
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	47%	9%	44%
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	59%	11%	30%
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	69%	14%	17%
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust (Former)	59%	15%	26%
Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	65%	24%	12%
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust	66%	30%	4%
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	67%	14%	18%
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust	55%	21%	24%
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	65%	22%	14%
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust	73%	12%	15%
Hinchingbrooke Health care NHS Trust	58%	17%	26%
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	59%	31%	10%
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	58%	8%	34%
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust	66%	14%	20%
Isle Of Wight NHS PCT	63%	17%	20%
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	51%	20%	29%
Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust	51%	19%	30%
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	77%	19%	4%
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust	68%	25%	8%
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	63%	9%	27%
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	17%	25%
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust	37%	17%	47%
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	63%	18%	19%
Maidstone and Tunbridge wells NHS Trust	64%	17%	19%
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust	57%	26%	17%
Medway NHS Trust	49%	18%	33%
Mid Essex Hospital services NHS Trust	54%	21%	25%
Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	58%	11%	30%
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	40%	27%	33%
Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust	57%	21%	22%
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust	49%	42%	9%
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust	66%	13%	20%
North Bristol NHS Trust	68%	13%	19%
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	51%	10%	39%
North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	57%	9%	34%
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	48%	35%	17%
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust	50%	12%	38%
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	53%	34%	13%
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	48%	24%	29%
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust	69%	18%	13%
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	60%	9%	31%
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	45%	18%	37%
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	61%	15%	24%
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	50%	19%	31%
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	63%	13%	24%
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust	59%	17%	24%
Poole Hospital NHS Trust	58%	16%	26%
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	12%	24%
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust	65%	21%	14%
Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust	54%	23%	22%
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	55%	25%	19%
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	70%	14%	16%
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust	67%	14%	19%
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust	72%	23%	4%
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust	67%	15%	18%
Royal West Sussex NHS Trust	69%	14%	17%
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust	47%	13%	40%
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	74%	10%	16%
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	40%	27%	33%
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health care NHS Trust	52%	17%	31%
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	57%	17%	26%
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	56%	13%	32%
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	61%	16%	23%
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	66%	17%	17%
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust	58%	15%	27%
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust	39%	19%	42%
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	60%	23%	17%
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	66%	14%	21%
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	50%	21%	29%
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust	50%	20%	30%
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust	59%	34%	7%
St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust	25%	20%	54%
St Mary's NHS Trust	63%	28%	9%
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	60%	16%	24%
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	63%	16%	20%
Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust	53%	22%	25%
Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust	48%	18%	34%
Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust	70%	9%	20%
The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust	47%	32%	21%
The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust	46%	37%	17%
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	44%	16%	40%
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	50%	19%	31%
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	58%	20%	22%
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital king’s Lynn NHS Trust	61%	18%	21%
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	54%	10%	35%
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust	47%	19%	34%
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust	71%	24%	5%
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	61%	12%	27%
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust	73%	10%	17%
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust	63%	14%	23%
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	61%	28%	11%
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust	59%	15%	26%
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust	64%	15%	21%
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	50%	23%	27%
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	61%	17%	23%
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust	61%	16%	23%
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust	41%	19%	41%
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	54%	27%	19%
West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	67%	17%	16%
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust	66%	14%	20%
Whips Cross University Hospital NHS Trust	65%	23%	13%
Wiltshire PCT	69%	12%	19%
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	61%	13%	26%
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	39%	25%	36%
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	58%	14%	28%
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust	65%	18%	17%
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust	34%	10%	56%
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	73%	12%	15%
York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	59%	19%	22%
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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