Maternity care survey 2018: national results

National results of the 2018 Maternity Care Survey. Comparisons have been made with the previous iterations of this survey where this is possible.

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Footnotes

1. www.gov.scot/Topics/Health/Policy/2020-Vision

2. www.gov.scot/publications/best-start-five-year-forward-plan-maternity-neonatal-care-scotland/

3. The approach to reform is guided by a commitment that public services will exhibit three key characteristics:  that people can expect their services to be person-centred, assets based and values driven. For more information see www.gov.scot/Topics/Government/PublicServiceReform/Christie

4. www.gov.scot/Topics/Health/Policy/2020-Vision

5. www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/311667/0098354.pdf 

6. www.gov.scot/publications/national-clinical-strategy-scotland/ 

7. www.gov.scot/Resource/0049/00492520.pdf

8. www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/02/3336

9. www.gov.scot/publications/practising-realistic-medicine/ 

10. www.gov.scot/publications/best-start-five-year-forward-plan-maternity-neonatal-care-scotland/ 

11. www.cqc.org.uk/publications/surveys/maternity-services-survey-2018 

12. Survey respondents were advised that their responses would be linked to additional demographic information via the survey’s Privacy Notice, available at www.gov.scot/MaternitySurveyPrivacyNotice 

13. www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Maternity-and-Births/Births/ 

14. www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/SIMD 

15. www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/About/Methodology/UrbanRuralClassification 

16. A higher proportion of women were excluded from the analysis for ‘Benefits and financial support’ compared to other areas as they responded that they did not need this information.

17. Women were asked to tick all that applied and so results cannot be summed.

18. www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Maternity-and-Births/Births/ 

19. Women were asked to tick all that applied and so results cannot be summed.

20. Women were asked to tick all that applied and so results cannot be summed.

21. Women were asked to tick all that applied and so results cannot be summed.

22. A higher proportion of women were excluded from the analysis for ‘Benefits and financial support’ compared to other areas as they responded that they did not need this information.

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