Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Ref No: 24-288

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Kind Regards

Gina Coldrick
Corporate Information Specialist
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Executive Offices, Kendrick Wing, Warrington Hospital, WA5 1QG

Email: [email address]

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Good afternoon,

Our responding team have asked for the following clarification:

1. Number of neonatal admittances - do you mean number of admissions into the Neonatal ward?
2. Number of late fetal losses – please define “late fetal”?
3. Number of stillbirths
4. Number of early and late neonatal deaths – please define “early and late neonatal”?
5. Number of post neonatal deaths – Please could you define post neonatal death? We could provide the number of patients who had a discharge method of “death” from the Neonatal ward?

Please confirm at your earliest convenience, the clock will stop on your request until we hear from you and then begin again at 0 days on receipt of clarification.

Regards

Gina

Gina Coldrick
Corporate Information Specialist
Trust Executive Offices
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Email: [email address]

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Good afternoon,

Thank you for clarifying, we will continue to process your request.

Regards

Gina Coldrick
Corporate Information Specialist
Trust Executive Offices
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Sir/Madam

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Ref No: 24-288

Response to request dated 06/05/2024 made under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000

Responding to the clarifications received on 07/05/2024.

Questions and Response:

Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) – establish if
information is held

In accordance with Section 1 of the FOIA, we can confirm that the Trust
does hold the information you have requested.

Please could you provide figures detailing the following information per
year between 2013 and 2018:

 1. Number of admissions into the Neonatal ward

Year Number of admissions into the neonatal ward
2013 352
2014 429
2015 408
2016 543
2017 538
2018 490

 2. Late fetal death (early stillbirth) from 20 weeks to 27 weeks.

Year Late fetal death (early stillbirth (20-27 weeks)
2013 2
2014 3
2015 1
2016 11
2017 15
2018 7

 3. Number of stillbirths

Year Still births
2013 11
2014 13
2015 8
2016 5
2017 12
2018 14

 4. Early neonatal death occurs in the first 7 days of life. Late neonatal
death occurs between the 8th and 28th days of life.

Year Early neonatal death occurs in the first 7 days of life. Late
neonatal death occurs between the 8th and 28th days of life.
2013 8
2014 5
2015 5
2016 4
2017 3
2018 7

5. Post neonatal death would occur from the 29th day of life onwards while
still on the neonatal ward.

Year Post neonatal death would occur from the 29th day of life onwards
while still on the neonatal ward.
2013 0
2014 1
2015 0
2016 0
2017 1
2018 1

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Kind Regards

Gina Coldrick

Corporate Information Specialist

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Executive Offices, Kendrick Wing, Warrington Hospital, WA5 1QG

Email: [4][email address]

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Good morning,

We have requested the data on a monthly basis for 2015/2016 and will update you on a timescale to receive this information.

However, we apologise we didn’t include the data originally for late neonatal deaths of 8-28 days, please see below.

Year Early neonatal death occurs in the first 7 days of life. Late neonatal death occurs between the 8th and 28th days of life.

2013 8 0
2014 5 1
2015 5 0
2016 4 0
2017 3 1
2018 7 1

Regards

Gina Coldrick
Corporate Information Specialist
Trust Executive Offices
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Email: [email address]

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Good afternoon,

The respondent for your request is on annual leave until 12 June, we apologise for the delay and will be in touch as soon as they return.

Regards

Gina Coldrick
Corporate Information Specialist
Trust Executive Offices
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Email: [email address]

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Good Afternoon,

My apologies for the delay, I have been waiting to hear back from the respondent.

The respondent has replied to say that due to clinical shifts and working patterns they will require 4 weeks to manually pull the information, as it is recorded annually, and they will need to go into each patient record to confirm the month of death as our recording systems have changed since this time period. They aim to provide the information by Friday 12 July.

We will work to that date, but if we can we will aim to return it earlier.

Gina Coldrick
Corporate Information Specialist
Trust Executive Offices
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Email: [email address]

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Good morning,

Further to your request for the Neonatal Deaths to be provided on a month-by-month basis for 2015/2016 please see below:

For 2015/2016 there was no late neonatal deaths occurring between 8th and 28th days of life.

For early neonatal deaths occurring within the first 7 days of life for 2015/2016 are as follows:

2015: 5

February - 3
September - 2

2016: 4

January - 1
April - 1
May - 1
October - 1

Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Kind Regards

Gina Coldrick
Corporate Information Specialist
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Executive Offices, Kendrick Wing, Warrington Hospital, WA5 1QG

Email: [email address]

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