Breastfeeding prevalence and Early Access to NHS maternity services in London

This workbook contains data on breastfeeding initiation and prevalence and early access to maternity services by London Primary Care Trust (PCT) as collected by the Department of Health Vital Signs Monitoring Return (VSMR).

The information reported at PCT level in this workbook is:

Number of Births

Births with breastfeeding initiated

Births with breastfeeding status not recorded

Infants due a 6/8 week check

Infants totally breastfed

Infants breastfeeding status not recorded

Number of bookings to maternity services

Number of timely bookings to maternity services