The Scottish Perinatal Network is one of the five partners in the Maternity and Neonatal Data Hub for Scotland. The Data Hub programme is managed by Public Health Scotland. The other three partners are Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Scottish Government, and National Records of Scotland.
The Data Hub has developed a number of useful web resources and these are listed below.
This website will shortly be redeveloped but until then additional information on the Data Hub is also available:
1 Topics Index
The Topics Index catalogues individual maternity and neonatal measures already available, including those on the Scottish Pregnancy, Births and Neonatal Data (SPBAND) Dashboard, the Health in the Early Years in Scotland (HEYS) dashboard, Discovery, NMPA, NNAP, National Records of Scotland and PHS websites. The Topics Index also includes a list of CORE maternity measures.
The Topics index is available at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iAcRF8gc1-k7341JygofiSUmsvmKJ_OxUPyE07XVTPU/edit#gid=277533606
We appreciate the Google Sheets platform may not be available to all our users and are working to develop a more sophisticated accessible platform for the catalogue. In the meantime, if you cannot access the hyperlink above and would like to view the Topics Index, please contact the Hub Programme Team (phs.matneodatahub@phs.scot) and we will seek alternative ways of sharing the index with you.
2 Scottish Pregnancy, Births and Neonatal Data Dashboard (SPBAND)
As part of our COVID-19 response, Public Health Scotland created a data dashboard showing wider impacts of COVID-19. Pregnancy and Births and babies sections of the Wider Impacts dashboard were updated each month until Sep 2023. Those two sections were replaced in October 2023 by a new Scottish Pregnancy, Births and Neonatal Data (SPBAND) Dashboard. Data on SPBAND is refreshed quarterly (in January, April, July and October each year).
SPBAND includes the same topics as those that featured in the two sections of the Wider Impacts dashboard it replaces:
SPBAND offers three ways to view data: time series charts for individual measures and individual Health Boards; small multiple time series charts, to allow comparison (for a particular measure) across Health Board areas, and a multi-indicator overview that displays multiple measures simultaneously, allowing comparison across Health Board areas.
3 Health in the Early Years in Scotland (HEYS) Dashboard
The Health in the Early Years in Scotland (HEYS) dashboard provides information on infant feeding (and child development), and is updated quarterly. A link to data on HEYS is now available from a new Infant feeding menu item on SPBAND.
4 NSS Discovery
Another Public Health Scotland dashboard that includes information on maternity care in Scotland is the NSS Discovery dashboard. You will need to register for a user name and password for this one.
5 Public Health Scotland Official Statistics on maternal and neonatal health
Public Health Scotland publishes a series of annual Official Statistics on pregnancy, childbirth and the early care of babies born in Scotland.
You can contact the Hub Programme Team by emailing their generic inbox (phs.matneodatahub@phs.scot).