Table 3

Comparison of NNRD (all admissions to neonatal care among births in England in 2013) and ONS (all live births in England in 2013)

Survival status*Region of mother’s residence*
Survived to 28 daysDied before 28 daysLondonMidlands and East of EnglandNorth of EnglandSouth of England
Gestational age‡NNRD/ONS (%)NNRD/ONS (%)NNRD/ONS (%)NNRD/ONS (%)NNRD/ONS (%)NNRD/ONS (%)
22+0–22+6 3/14 (21)9/130 (7)
23+0–23+6 105/104 (101)81/168 (48)44/57 (77)52/77 (68)51/79 (65)31/57 (54)
24+0–24+6 274/298 (92)109/158 (69)79/108 (73)93/109 (85)110/134 (82)80/105 (76)
25+0–25+6 375/388 (97)82/86 (95)88/95 (93)118/136 (87)134/136 (99)102/106 (96)
26+0–26+6 506/526 (96)60/77 (78)126/134 (94)165/189 (87)146/164 (89)105/115 (91)
27+0–27+6 619/646 (96)49/54 (91)115/130 (88)184/202 (91)194/199 (97)144/164 (88)
28+0–28+6 852/865 (98)59/60 (98)173/192 (90)248/268 (93)221/242 (91)208/221 (94)
29+0–29+6 1049/1069 (98)34/41 (83)194/198 (98)300/334 (90)311/342 (91)221/236 (94)
30+0–30+6 1306/1351 (97)28/32 (88)247/261 (95)371/412 (90)371/384 (97)275/324 (85)
31+0–31+6 1723/1766 (98)27/39 (69)349/376 (93)449/496 (91)462/491 (94)405/436 (93)
Total6812/7027 (97)538/845 (64)1415/1551 (91)1980/2223 (89)2000/2171 (92)1571/1764 (89)
  • *There were 17 infants in the NNRD with unknown survival status and 389 with unknown region of mother’s residence so row totals may not correspond.

  • †Live births at 22 weeks’ gestational age by region was not published.

  • ‡There were 2256 live births in ONS data where gestational age data could not be linked or were not recorded.

  • NNRD, National Neonatal Research Database; ONS, Office of National Statistics.