NMPA Results

Three different types of results are presented on this page:

  1. NMPA Online: Results on maternity care practices and outcomes in Great Britain, taken from specialised maternity and administrative databases. All annual data from 2020 onwards is available via this interactive dashboard. 
  2. Organisational Survey Report Results: Results on the way care is organised in maternity services across Great Britain, based on questionnaires sent to hospitals in 2017 and 2019. There are currently no plans to repeat this survey, however please let us know if this would be helpful.
  3. NMPA Data prior to 2020: In 2026, we moved to a new tool for sharing our data. This is 'NMPA Online'. However, for data before 2020 you can find it all here. Please note these data used a different data source, so direct comparisons are not advised. 

 

 NMPA Online

 

What is it?

NMPA Online reports on care practices and outcomes for women and families using maternity services in Great Britain. Information from specialised maternity databases in England, and administrative databases in Wales and Scotland, are compared between NHS hospitals. Changes in data quality over time are also assessed.

Example questions

Example questions these results can answer:
“How many hospitals have higher or lower rates of 3rd or 4th degree tears than expected, taking into account their patient case mix?”

“How many mothers in my local hospital had an episiotomy?”

What data are available?

Data are presented by calendar year. Each year from 2020 will be available as soon as we can publish the data.

How is it shown?

Data are available at different levels: NHS hospital, site or Trust/Health Board, local maternity system, region, and country.

Further guidance is available when you click the link.

Organisational Survey Reports

 

What is it?

The organisational survey results give a snapshot of the way care is organised in NHS maternity services in all settings across England, Scotland and Wales.

 

Example questions

Example questions these results can answer: 
“Does my local NHS Trust have a midwife led unit?” 

“Can my birth partner stay overnight at the hospital I’m thinking of giving birth in?”

 What data are available?

Data are available from January 2017 and January 2019. These two surveys reflect the changes which are being implemented as a result of the maternity and neonatal services reviews and other initiatives.

 

How is it shown?

Data are shown on a number of topics covering the type of birth settings and facilities available, specialist care services and neonatal unit types and size.

Data are shown at a number of different levels – hospital, trust/board, neonatal network, local maternity system, and country.

 

 

 

 NMPA Data Prior to 2020

 

What is it?

In 2026, we moved to a new tool for sharing our data. This is 'NMPA Online'. However, for data before 2020 you can find it all here.

Example questions

Example questions these results can answer:
“How many hospitals have higher or lower rates of 3rd or 4th degree tears than expected, taking into account their patient case mix?”

“How many mothers in my local hospital had an episiotomy?”

What data are available?

Data are presented by financial year for the following available reports:

between 1st April 2016 and 31st March 2017; between 1st April 2017 and 31st March 2018; between 1st April 2018 and 31st March 2019. 

How is it shown?

Data are available at different levels: NHS hospital site or Trust/Health Board, local maternity system, region, and country. You can view results for an individual hospital on the NMPA website, or download one of our annual Clinical Reports which contain information ranging from hospital- to national-level.