Postnatal Care
(asked on 4th September 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average post-partum hospital stay was in each of the last 10 years.
Where data is available regarding the mean duration of post-natal stays in English National Health Service hospitals, statistics are shown in the following table for the years 2007/08 – 2016/17:
Year | Total deliveries (excluding unknown postnatal length of stay) | Mean postnatal duration (days) |
2007-08 | 427,155 | 1.8 |
2008-09 | 535,900 | 1.8 |
2009-10 | 578,340 | 1.7 |
2010-11 | 591,209 | 1.7 |
2011-12 | 577,143 | 1.6 |
2012-13 | 563,933 | 1.6 |
2013-14 | 539,519 | 1.6 |
2014-15 | 550,162 | 1.7 |
2015-16 | 553,795 | 1.7 |
2016-17 | 545,639 | 1.6 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital