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Spontaneous labours in England fall as induced labours and caesareans rise
New figures from NHS Digital show that the proportion of pregnant women having a spontaneous labour has decreased over the past year and the number of caesareans and induced labours has increased.
In 2015-16 the proportion of pregnant women having a spontaneous labour was 57.4 per cent compared to 55.1 per cent in 2016-17.
Over the same time, the proportion of caesareans undertaken before the onset of labour increased from 14.7 per cent to 15.5 per cent, and induced labours increased from 27.9 per cent to 29.4 per cent.
In 2006-07, the proportion of pregnant women having a spontaneous labour was 68.7 per cent, while caesareans undertaken before the onset of labour accounted for 11.0 per cent of delivered and induced labours for 20.3 per cent.
There was a total of 636,000 deliveries in NHS hospitals during 2016-17, a decrease of 1.8 per cent from 2015-16.
NHS Maternity Statistics 2016-17 includes data relating to delivery and birth episodes and their booking appointments.
For the first time, the publication examines data from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and experimental data from the Maternity Services Data Set with the aim of providing a more complete picture of NHS maternity activity.
Additional figures in the report from HES concern use of anaesthetic or analgesic, skin to skin contact, breast milk and smoking.
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