Caesarean Sections
(asked on 6th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many caesarean births there have been in each of the last five years.
The information available on the number of delivery episodes with a method of delivery of caesarean section for the specified financial years is in the table below. Where there is more than one baby born in a delivery episode, the method of delivery is that of the first baby.
The information in the table only includes deliveries within National Health Service hospitals in England.
Financial year | Number of Caesarean section deliveries |
2015-16 | 172,954 |
2014-15 | 166,319 |
2013-14 | 166,081 |
2012-13 | 167,283 |
2011-12 | 163,859 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics – Annual Hospital Maternity Activity Publications