Infant Deaths - FOI Response Register

1. How many stillbirth, neonatal, extended perinatal, post-neonatal and infant deaths occurred per 1,000 total births in your health board area in each of the last four full financial years.

See table below

2. If possible please then breakdown these figures, again for each of the last four full financial years, by each category (stillbirth, neonatal, extended perinatal, post-neonatal and infant deaths).

Not applicable

3. How many stillbirth, neonatal, extended perinatal, post-neonatal and infant deaths occurred per 1,000 total births in the maternity units/wards run by your health board in each of the last four full financial years.

See table below

4. In the response please can you state the name of the maternity unit/ward, the year and its mortality rate encompassing all of the above categories of death?

Maternity Ward, Gilbert Bain Hospital, Lerwick, Shetland

Where we have given <5 answers, this is because NHS Shetland considers that providing more specific information carries a high risk of identifying individuals. As such and in accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 38(1)(b) as read with s 38 (2A) as the information constitutes personal data and disclosure would breach the confidentiality of the data subjects.