The Perinatal Institute collects standardised maternity
information on all pregnancies in the West Midlands
since April 2009. The dataset
was developed, refined and agreed following wide consultation
(the current version is available at here).
The information is extracted from the Pregnancy
Notes (see here)
and entered on the regional, NHSnet based Perinatal
Episode Electronic Record (PEER) by trained data clerks
in the respective provider units.
PEER provides access to nominated individuals at
Trusts and PCTs to access their own data for basic
statistics. In addition, the Institute has a data
request service and also issues standard quarterly
reports on the data collection and the regionally
agreed 'key
performance indicators' (see here).
It has started to produce themed reports, the first
being on maternal age.
