Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • The need for better maternity data
      • The National Perinatal Data Collection-overview of collection and reporting
      • The National Maternity Data Development Project
      • Related data projects and initiatives
      • Project governance and consultation
      • Structure of this report
    • 2 The NMDDP priority data items
    • 3 A classification system for models of maternity care
      • Literature review
      • Building on the literature review-development of the Maternity Care Classification System
    • 4 Prospective national reporting of maternal mortality
    • 5 Progress with other components of the NMDDP
      • Data development for agreed priority data items
      • Maternal mortality report for2006-10
      • Data linkage study on maternal and late maternal deaths
      • Investigation of a common approach to reporting national perinatal mortality data
      • Improving the availability of maternity data
    • 6 Conclusions
  • End matter
    • Appendix A: Perinatal National Minimum Data Set
    • Appendix B: National Perinatal Data Collection-issues of national consistency
    • Appendix C: National Core Maternity Indicators
    • Appendix D: Members of groups and committees as at June 2013
    • Appendix E: The Maternity Information Matrix
    • Appendix F: National information needs-summary from the desktop review
    • Appendix G: Questionnaire
    • Appendix H: Additional material
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures