Wednesday 03 July 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7906
Date Request Received: 23/04/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 08/05/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: DA in maternity
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: For the past five years, please give a breakdown by year of; • The number of pregnant women who have disclosed that they are a victim of domestic abuse/flagged as victims of domestic abuse in your system (please also include the total number of pregnant patients each year for comparison) | |
| Answer To Question 1: 2020 55 2021 47 2022 48 2023 81 2024 40 women booked until November 24 | |
| Question Number 2: • Number of women who disclosed DA who experienced infection, premature birth, miscarriage, injury or death [risks listed as per the video on this NHS page https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/support/domestic-abuse-in-pregnancy/] | |
| Answer To Question 2: Would take over the 18 hours to answer as would need to be a manual data gathering exercise. | |
| Question Number 3: • For how many women it has not been possible to undertake in private (aka whilst she is alone) the routine initial enquiry to decipher whether she is a victim | |
| Answer To Question 3: Question is asked at 'Booking' and at 28 weeks - but not routinely recorded if undertook in private. | |
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