Childbirth
(asked on 5th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made any recent estimate of the average amount of time premature babies spend in neonatal units.
This question was answered on 12th November 2018
The following table shows the average amount of time spent in neonatal units for babies born before 37 weeks’ gestation in 2015, the latest year for which information is currently available.
Gestation at birth | Average length of stay (days) |
Before and up to 27 weeks | 93 |
28-31 weeks | 44 |
32-36 weeks | 13 |