Vasa Praevia

(asked on 4th October 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of cases of Vasa Praevia in expectant mothers in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.


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Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 8th October 2019

A count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) with a primary diagnosis or all diagnoses of labour and delivery complicated by vasa praevia, for 2018/19 - activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector can be found in the following table.

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FCEs

Primary diagnosis

109

All Diagnoses

194

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

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