Planned Home Birth in Ireland Audit

Self Employed Community Midwives (SECMs) in Ireland provide a home birth service on behalf of the Health Service Executive (HSE). Maternity records of midwifery care provided are sent by the SECM to the Designated Midwifery Officer (DMO) in their respective HSE area. The DMO reviews the maternity records then collates the data using a standardised audit tool.

Purpose: The purpose of the audit is to examine both the maternal and fetal outcomes of planned home births, including outcomes whereby the care of the woman is transferred for hospital care in the antenatal period, during labour or the postnatal period.

Coverage: National coverage: all planned births with the HSE home birth service are recorded.

Data is collected on an annual basis starting on the 1st of January and finishing on the 31st of December.

Data and Resources

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Additional Info

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Contact points
Contact point 1
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Name
National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre
Email
data@national-perinatal-e.ie
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Publisher
Publisher 1
URI
Name
National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre
Email
URL
Type
http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
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Homepage
Landing page
Release date January 1, 2012
Modification date March 4, 2025
Version
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Identifier NDC-0112
Frequency http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/ANNUAL
Provenance

Data is collected by the SECM and sent to the DMO in their respective HSE area. After reviewing the maternity records, the DMOs collates the data using a standardised audit tool and data is uploaded to the electronic register hosted by the NPEC or is forwarded to the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre (NPEC) for analysis.

Data is submitted on the secure online NPEC database on an annual basis.
Type
Temporal coverage
Temporal coverage 1
Start
January 1, 2012
End
June 24, 2026
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Spatial coverage
Spatial coverage 1
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
Label
Ireland
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Access rights http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/RESTRICTED
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  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
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  1. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/registries
Health theme
  1. http://health.europa.eu/theme/chronic-disease
  2. http://health.europa.eu/theme/public-health
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Minimum typical age 0
Maximum typical age 65
Number of records 240827
Number of records for unique individuals. 417413
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