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Perinatal Mortality: Wiltshire

Asked by Sarah GibsonLiberal DemocratDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 15 July 2025UIN 66403

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) stillbirths and (b) neonatal deaths were recorded in maternity units serving Wiltshire in each of the last five years.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The maternity units serving Wiltshire are provided by the Great Western Hospitals Trust, the Royal United Hospitals Bath Trust, and the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK’s perinatal mortality surveillance data provides the figures for stillbirths and neonatal deaths for these trusts, in each of the last five years that the data was available. This data is available at the following link:

https://timms.le.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk-perinatal-mortality/data-viewer/

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