The Perinatal Institute collects standardised maternity information on all pregnancies
in the West Midlands since April 2009. The dataset was developed, refined and agreed following wide
consultation (the current version is available at here). The information is extracted from the Pregnancy Notes (see
here) and entered on the regional, NHSnet based
Perinatal Episode Electronic Record (PEER) by trained data clerks in the respective
provider units.
PEER provides access to nominated individuals at Trusts and PCTs to access their
own data for basic statistics. In addition, the Institute has a data request service
and also issues standard quarterly reports on the data collection and the regionally
agreed 'key
performance indicators' (see here). It has started to produce themed
reports, the first being on maternal age.