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Birth Intelligence
NHS maternity data - clinical outcomes, safety ratings, patient experience - in one place, in language built for families.
Women in the UK have the right to choose where they give birth. But exercising that right meaningfully requires information that has never been easy to find. We're changing that.
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155+
NHS obstetric units covered
6
data sources combined
12–24
months of outcome data per unit
0
jargon unexplained
The data exists. It just isn't for you.
MBRRACE-UK publishes stillbirth and neonatal death rates by trust. The NMPA (National Maternity and Perinatal Audit) publishes C-section rates, induction rates and staffing ratios for every unit in England. The CQC inspects every maternity service and publishes detailed reports. NHS England publishes monthly patient satisfaction data.
All of it exists. All of it is public. And all of it is buried in PDFs, spreadsheets, and interactive dashboards designed for clinicians and commissioners - not for a woman at 28 weeks trying to decide where to give birth.
Birth Intelligence puts it all in one place, in language that doesn't require a medical degree to understand.
What you'll find on every unit profile
Clinical outcomes, not headlines
C-section rates, induction rates, instrumental delivery, episiotomy - pulled directly from NHS Hospital Episode Statistics and the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA). Every figure shown against the national average.
CQC ratings and patient experience
Every unit's Care Quality Commission rating - both overall and maternity-specific - alongside NHS Friends & Family Test recommendation scores from the most recent reporting period.
Plain language - no dumbing down
Every clinical term explained. Every metric contextualised. A high C-section rate doesn't make a unit bad - it may serve more complex pregnancies. We show the data and the reason, never a verdict.
Every figure sourced and linked
Nothing is anonymised, editorialised, or estimated. Every number links directly to the NHS, CQC, MBRRACE-UK or NMPA publication it came from. You can verify everything.
Who built this
Built by a UK obstetrician
I'm an NHS OB/GYN. Every day in my clinical practice I see the consequences of informed and uninformed birth planning decisions. I also see how long it takes - even for a clinician - to pull together the data needed to give a patient a complete picture of their options.
Women deserve to walk into those conversations already informed. Not alarmed, not overwhelmed - just informed. That's what this site is for.
This isn't a ranking tool. It doesn't tell you which unit is best. It tells you what the data shows, what it means, and what questions to ask - because the best birth is the one that's right for you, in a place you chose with open eyes.
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