National Perinatal Reporting System (NPRS)

The National Perinatal Reporting System (NPRS) has as its principal aim, the provision of national statistics on perinatal events.

Purpose: To maintain a timely accurate national database of key perinatal indicators over time. Collection, processing, management and reporting of data on all births nationally that meets the needs of the data users (including policymakers, clinical teams and researchers), through the development and support of the system.

Coverage: All maternity hospitals/departments and independent midwives report to NPRS covering 100% of births in Ireland. NPRS data collection commenced in 1970 and is ongoing.

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Additional Info

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Contact points
Contact point 1
URI
Name
Healthcare Pricing Office
Email
data@healthcare-pricing-o.ie
Identifier
Publisher
Publisher 1
URI
Name
Healthcare Pricing Office
Email
URL
Type
http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
Identifier
Creator
Homepage
Landing page
Release date January 1, 1969
Modification date February 9, 2024
Version
Version notes
Identifier NDC-0096
Frequency http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/ANNUAL
Provenance

All births are registered and notified on a standard four part birth notification form which is completed where the birth takes place. Part 3 of this paper form is sent to the HPO office for data entry and validation. Approximately 40% of hospitals submit data electronically to the NPRS system.
Type
Temporal coverage
Temporal coverage 1
Start
January 1, 1969
End
June 26, 2025
Temporal resolution
Spatial coverage
Spatial coverage 1
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
Label
Ireland
Geometry
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Centroid
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Access rights http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/NON_PUBLIC
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Theme
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
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Health category
  1. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/registries
  2. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/public-health
Health theme
  1. http://health.europa.eu/theme/chronic-disease
  2. http://health.europa.eu/theme/public-health
  3. http://health.europa.eu/theme/infectious-disease
Legal basis
Minimum typical age 0
Maximum typical age 85
Number of records 265356
Number of records for unique individuals. 142948
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