TABLE 4.14.4
METHOD OF DELIVERY BY REGION 1996-97
Estimated Percentages
| Regional Office Area
| All Methods | Spontaneous
| Instrumental | Caesarean
| Other |
| Northern and Yorkshire | 100 |
76 | 9 | 14 |
1 |
| Trent | 100 | 72
| 12 | 15 | 1 |
| Anglia and Oxford | 100 | 71
| 12 | 17 | 0 |
| North Thames | 100 | 72
| 10 | 18 | 0 |
| South Thames | 100 | 68
| 13 | 19 | 0 |
| South and West | 100 | 72
| 11 | 17 | 0 |
| West Midlands | 100 | 74
| 9 | 16 | 1
|
| North Western | 100 | 75
| 9 | 16 | 0
|
ENGLAND | 100 | 72
| 10 | 17 | 1 |
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Footnote:
1. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (Maternity), produced
by DH SD2B.
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