Miscarriage

(asked on 24th October 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Shannon Portrait
Jim Shannon
(Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many miscarriages the NHS has registered in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 27th October 2016

The National Health Service is not required to register miscarriages. Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) provide information on the number of miscarriages. The table shows the number of miscarriages from 2010-11 to 2014-15 where there was a hospital admission. Not all miscarriages will require an admission to hospital.

Activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector

Year

Number of miscarriages

2010-11

43,005

2011-12

42,538

2012-13

39,800

2013-14

38,869

2014-15

38,377

Source: HES, NHS Digital

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