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Percentage of abortions under 10 weeks that are medical (14859) Metric type
- Help text
- This is the percentage of all NHS-funded abortions under 10 weeks gestation that are performed using a medical procedure. It is sourced from Department of Health based on data from abortion clinics.
This indicator will help to improve transparency at a local level on the extent of medical and surgical services available to women, and will thus be an indicator of patient choice. A very low or a very high percentage of medical abortions compared to other areas could be an issue for concern. The choice of early medical abortion as a method of abortion is likely to have contributed to the increase in the overall percentage of abortions performed at under ten weeks gestation. Early medical abortion is less invasive than a surgical procedure and carries less risk as it does not involve instrumentation or use of anaesthetics. Medical abortions are also cheaper than surgical interventions. However, women may prefer a surgical abortion under local or general anaesthesia/conscious sedation for a variety of reasons such as: wishing to avoid the experience of going through an induced pregnancy loss; intrauterine contraception can be fitted per procedure; only one visit required to the provider site (medical abortions typically require 2 trips) when long distances to travel/ problems with release from work/ home caring responsibilities/ financial burden. There is also a new manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) technique which is a quicker and cheaper surgical procedure that does not require an anaesthetic.
- Modified
- 26 Mar 2021
- Data last updated
- 08 Feb 2023
- Short label
- Abortions under 10 weeks that are medical (%)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- %
- Dataset
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles (annual)
- Collection
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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