Brain Injuries and Death: Babies
(asked on 17th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many neonatal brain (a) injuries and (b) deaths were reported in the NHS in each year from 2010 to 2020.
The numbers of neonatal brain injuries and neonatal deaths in England in years from 2010 is shown in the following table:
Year | Neonatal brain injuries1 | Neonatal deaths2 |
2010 | 3,3903 | 2,015 |
2011 | 3,5323 | 2,023 |
2012 | 3,404 | 1,933 |
2013 | 3,393 | 1,774 |
2014 | 3,558 | 1,679 |
2015 | 3,445 | 1,745 |
2016 | 3,446 | 1,832 |
2017 | 3,270 | 1,810 |
2018 | Not yet available | 1,742 |
2019 | Not yet available | |
2020 | Not yet available | |
Notes:
1Source: Imperial College, London, 2017 and 2019. The 2017 report is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safer-maternity-care-progress-and-next-steps
2Source: Office for National Statistics: Child mortality (death cohort) tables in England and Wales, available at https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/childmortalitystatisticschildhoodinfantandperinatalchildhoodinfantandperinatalmortalityinenglandandwales
3The original report presents a range for the years 2010 (3,160 to 3,619) and 2011 (3,434 to 3,630) as the available data did not cover all births in England. The table presents the midpoints of these ranges.