Thinking about feeding your baby (breast or bottle) did you feel that midwives and other carers gave you practical help?

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	Yes, always	Yes, generally	No
ENGLAND	38.7%	39.0%	22.3%
Airedale NHS Trust	48%	35%	16%
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust	26%	50%	24%
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust	24%	36%	40%
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	33%	36%	31%
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	55%	27%	17%
Barts and the London NHS Trust	21%	23%	56%
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	32%	43%	25%
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust	37%	35%	28%
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust	41%	37%	22%
Birmingham Women’s Health care NHS Trust	32%	45%	22%
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust	27%	35%	37%
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust	40%	31%	29%
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	46%	36%	18%
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust	44%	37%	18%
Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust	28%	42%	29%
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust	38%	40%	22%
Burton Hospitals NHS Trust	40%	44%	16%
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	42%	43%	15%
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	32%	44%	24%
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust	41%	33%	27%
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	23%	47%	30%
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	51%	33%	15%
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	46%	40%	14%
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	39%	40%	21%
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	42%	45%	13%
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	35%	32%	33%
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	50%	36%	14%
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	43%	44%	13%
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	50%	37%	13%
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust	35%	35%	30%
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust	42%	40%	18%
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	40%	38%	22%
East Cheshire NHS Trust	43%	43%	14%
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust	32%	42%	26%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	44%	34%	22%
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust	41%	38%	20%
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	37%	44%	20%
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust	41%	41%	19%
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	36%	43%	21%
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	46%	39%	16%
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	36%	36%	27%
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	40%	39%	21%
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust (Former)	28%	42%	29%
Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	35%	41%	24%
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust	36%	34%	30%
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	39%	46%	16%
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust	37%	39%	25%
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	38%	42%	20%
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust	45%	38%	17%
Hinchingbrooke Health care NHS Trust	43%	38%	19%
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	27%	38%	34%
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	46%	36%	18%
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust	37%	42%	21%
Isle Of Wight NHS PCT	46%	38%	16%
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	44%	41%	15%
Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust	46%	33%	21%
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	41%	35%	24%
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust	27%	51%	22%
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	44%	37%	19%
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	33%	43%	24%
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust	37%	38%	25%
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	42%	37%	22%
Maidstone and Tunbridge wells NHS Trust	41%	42%	17%
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust	25%	37%	38%
Medway NHS Trust	41%	38%	21%
Mid Essex Hospital services NHS Trust	38%	38%	24%
Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	32%	41%	27%
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	33%	43%	24%
Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust	30%	46%	24%
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust	35%	27%	38%
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust	37%	40%	23%
North Bristol NHS Trust	37%	44%	18%
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	33%	44%	23%
North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	46%	43%	11%
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	42%	23%	35%
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust	51%	31%	18%
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	36%	39%	25%
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	28%	39%	32%
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust	51%	33%	15%
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	45%	43%	12%
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	37%	42%	21%
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	32%	41%	27%
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	50%	35%	15%
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	43%	31%	26%
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust	40%	39%	20%
Poole Hospital NHS Trust	42%	35%	23%
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust	44%	39%	17%
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust	32%	35%	34%
Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust	40%	36%	24%
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	30%	44%	26%
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	49%	38%	13%
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust	31%	43%	26%
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust	17%	47%	36%
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust	39%	37%	24%
Royal West Sussex NHS Trust	42%	43%	15%
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust	49%	36%	14%
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	50%	38%	12%
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	33%	42%	26%
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health care NHS Trust	31%	47%	23%
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	34%	40%	26%
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	57%	30%	13%
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	39%	45%	16%
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	45%	40%	15%
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust	47%	32%	21%
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust	46%	34%	20%
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	36%	46%	18%
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	43%	41%	16%
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	46%	36%	18%
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust	32%	48%	20%
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust	31%	37%	32%
St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust	37%	39%	24%
St Mary's NHS Trust	29%	41%	30%
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	50%	30%	20%
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	29%	46%	25%
Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust	46%	34%	19%
Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust	45%	33%	22%
Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust	45%	38%	17%
The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust	23%	47%	30%
The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust	31%	28%	41%
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	35%	45%	19%
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	40%	39%	22%
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	53%	35%	12%
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital king’s Lynn NHS Trust	45%	36%	19%
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	35%	37%	28%
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust	36%	37%	26%
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust	28%	39%	33%
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	39%	41%	20%
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust	42%	43%	16%
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust	43%	40%	17%
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	30%	34%	35%
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust	41%	39%	20%
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust	43%	46%	11%
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	35%	44%	22%
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	41%	37%	22%
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust	34%	50%	16%
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust	39%	39%	22%
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	29%	43%	28%
West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	38%	43%	18%
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust	41%	32%	27%
Whips Cross University Hospital NHS Trust	26%	40%	35%
Wiltshire PCT	49%	33%	18%
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	32%	45%	22%
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	31%	48%	21%
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	41%	39%	21%
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust	52%	36%	12%
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust	45%	34%	21%
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	51%	35%	14%
York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	34%	46%	19%
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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