FOI_7857

Internal Reference Number: FOI_7857

Date Request Received: 03/04/2024 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 17/04/2024 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Private Maternity Services

Request Category: Media


Question Number 1: I am defining private maternity services as when a patient pays for their birth to be done privately and also any aftercare as part of a package. I know separately, that patients can just pay for a private room to stay in after giving birth, which is the focus of the second question. For the first question in relation to money made, please can this figure include any additional that patients may have paid for beyond beyond the package available - ie an extra stay in hospital or for anaesthetics intervention. How many patients paid for private maternity services via your trust in the calendar years 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2022, 2023? Please break this down by year and say whether the births were consultant led natural delivery or consultant led cesarean. Please also say how much money was raised by the trust for private maternity services in those years.

Answer To Question 1: We do not provide private maternity services within our trust.

Question Number 2: How many patients paid for a private room to stay in after birth via your trust in the calendar years 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2022, 2023? Please break this down by year and also state the money made for the trust through this service in each of those years.

Answer To Question 2: 2012 (service started in April) £17,435 2016 £63,677 2018 £69,805 2022 and 2023 - No charge applicable as stopped in Covid. We cannot break the figures down into number of stays as the data is no longer available.

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