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Percentage of mothers known to be smokers at time of delivery (12035) Metric type
- Help text
- The number of mothers known to be smokers at the time of delivery as a percentage of all maternities. A maternity is defined as a pregnant woman who gives birth to one or more live or stillborn babies of at least 24 weeks gestation, where the baby is delivered by either a midwife or doctor at home or in a NHS hospital.
There has been a change of method for reporting this information from April 2017, removing those whose smoking status is unknown from the calculation. Excluding women with unknown smoking status from the calculation will provide a more accurate representation of the true proportion of women smoking at time of delivery. In the previous definition, women with unknown smoking status were effectively categorised as non-smokers. However, a number of these would be smokers and this therefore served to deflate the indicator value. The overall impact of this change at England level is small, although the impact will be greater for those Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) who have a high proportion of unknowns. Work is already underway to encourage and support Trusts/CCGs to collect and record accurate information. IT issues are reported as the main reason for high levels of unknowns, which should be resolved as systems embed and improve.
- Modified
- 04 Aug 2021
- Data last updated
- 29 Apr 2024
- Also known as
- PHOF 2.03
- 2.03
- 2.03 - Smoking status at time of delivery
- C06 - Smoking status at time of delivery_Female_All ages
- C06
- Short label
- % of mothers known to be smokers at time of delivery
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- % of all maternities
- Dataset
- Calculated by PHE from the NHS Digital return on Smoking Status At Time of delivery (SATOD)
- Collection
- Public Health Outcomes Framework
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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