§ Audrey WiseTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) miscarriages occurred in pregnancies of at least 13 and less than 24 completed weeks of gestation in England and (b) women (i) who were admitted to hospital and (ii) cared for by a general practitioner without admission to hospital following such miscarriages in each of the last 10 years. [108680]
§ Yvette CooperThere are no reliable data held by the Department about the number of miscarriages where care was provided by a general practitioner. Information about the number of women requiring hospital treatment for miscarriages is available from the Hospital Episode Statistics but not by period of gestation. The latest information for the number of women diagnosed as receiving hospital care for miscarriage from 1989–90 to 1997–98 are in the table.
Year Number of miscarriages 1989–90 48,500 1990–91 50,600 1991–92 53,100 1992–93 52,400 1993–94 51,300 1994–95 48,700 1995–96 43,900 1996–97 44,500 1997–98 141,800 1 Provisional Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics
The information in the table is obtained from the Hospital Episodes Statistics system. The data are ungrossed and therefore have not been adjusted to allow for missing, incomplete or inaccurate records.
Data extracted were those with the diagnosis code 003 (ICD-10) Spontaneous Abortion.