Birth to Qualified Midwifery Direct Clinical Care Ratio - Midwifery Data as at 31 December 2019
Total Birth Numbers from National Records of Scotland and SMR02
| NHS Board | Total Births NRS (2018) | Total SMR02 (2018) | SMR02 home births |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHSScotland | 51,308 | 51,491 | 741 |
| NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 3,233 | 3,121 | 29 |
| NHS Borders | 984 | 986 | 6 |
| NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 1,198 | 1,185 | 65 |
| NHS Fife | 3,479 | 3,233 | 52 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 2,715 | 2,973 | 25 |
| NHS Grampian | 5,859 | 5,940 | 106 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 11,623 | 14,463 | 137 |
| NHS Highland | 2,653 | 2,094 | 26 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 6,540 | 4,323 | 51 |
| NHS Lothian | 8,748 | 8,901 | 136 |
| NHS Orkney | 186 | 123 | 1 |
| NHS Shetland | 215 | 95 | 4 |
| NHS Tayside | 3,669 | 3,895 | 101 |
| NHS Western Isles | 206 | 158 | 2 |
Notes
- National Records of Scotland provisional births 2018 by year of registration and NHS board of residence. Includes still births. https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/vital-events-ref-tables/2018/vital-events-18-ref-tabs-1.xlsx
- SMRA births for 2018 by year of birth and NHS board of the institution the birth took place, this includes still births and the home births figure. Total Scotland figure includes 1 birth that took place at the National Waiting Times Centre.
- The source of the SMRA figures are a quarterly feed from National Records of Scotland to an ISD database.
- Home births are identified as those that took place not in an institution, this figure may include births that occurred in transport to an institution.
- The home births figure for NHS Dumfries and Galloway contained an anomaly, this is being investigated via the affected Board and NRS. This also affects the Scotland total.
Birth to Qualified Midwifery Direct Clinical Care Ratio by NHS board with Staff in Post Figures as at 31 December 2019
| NHS Board | Qualified Midwives (Midwifery Direct CC) | NRS birth rate | SMR02 birth rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHSScotland | 2,222.0 | 23.09 | 23.17 |
| NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 177.0 | 18.27 | 17.63 |
| NHS Borders | 47.3 | 20.80 | 20.85 |
| NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 54.6 | 21.94 | 21.70 |
| NHS Fife | 167.9 | 20.72 | 19.26 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 104.7 | 25.93 | 28.40 |
| NHS Grampian | 210.7 | 27.81 | 28.19 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 552.4 | 21.04 | 26.18 |
| NHS Highland | 154.1 | 17.22 | 13.59 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 194.0 | 33.71 | 22.28 |
| NHS Lothian | 350.2 | 24.98 | 25.42 |
| NHS Orkney | 11.0 | 16.91 | 11.18 |
| NHS Shetland | 11.8 | 18.22 | 8.05 |
| NHS Tayside | 170.0 | 21.58 | 22.91 |
| NHS Western Isles | 15.4 | 13.38 | 10.26 |
Notes
- Includes interns, excludes National Bodies and Special Health Boards who do not see patients
- Births based on NRS provisional birth figures (2018 live and still births). Calculated Birth Rate = Births/Midwifery - Direct Clinical Care
- Births based on the SMRA total birth figures (2018 live and still births). Calculated Birth Rate = Births/Midwifery - Direct Clinical Care
- The home births figure for NHS Dumfries and Galloway contained an anomaly, this is being investigated via the affected Board and NRS. This also affects the Scotland total.
