FOI Ref: FOI/2022/3487
You asked
Please supply the number of neonatal deaths recorded by hospital Trust and by year for the following years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We do not hold data on NHS trusts. ONS mortality data are published in line with the National Statistics Postcode Lookup which is based on the area of usual residence of the deceased.
Table 3 of our Child and infant mortality in England and Wales publication provides the number of neonatal deaths in Kent county and the non-metropolitan districts within Kent. Data are available from 2016 to 2019 in each annual data release.
We have also published the number of neonatal deaths by Clinical Commissioning Groups in England for 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015.
You may be able to obtain deaths by trust from NHS digital. They can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk.
You may also wish to contact Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE-UK) who also publish data on neonatal mortality. They can be contacted at mbrrace-uk@npeu.ox.ac.uk. Neonatal mortality statistics published by MBRRACE-UK exclude births below 24 weeks gestational age and exclude births that resulted in a death following termination of pregnancy. For more information on the differences between ONS and MBRRACE-UK data please refer to our Child and infant mortality in England and Wales: 2019 publication.