FOI2026/1947

To remain within the cost limit, I am requesting existing maternity‑dashboard metrics or standard ICS‑level reporting data relating to home‑birth service provision and safety. I am not requesting incident‑level data. 

For each of the past five financial years (or for as many years as your dashboard holds), please provide the following metrics, broken down by year, where they already exist within your ICS dashboard or standard reporting tools:

1. Number of planned home births
2. Number of actual home births 
3. Number of transfers from home to hospital relating to home births
4. Number of planned home births cancelled, where this metric is already collected within your ICS dashboard or standard reporting tools. If recorded, please also provide the categorised reasons for cancellation.
5. Number of occasions where home birth services were suspended
6. Recorded reasons for suspension, as held in your dashboard or reporting tools
7. Any home‑birth‑related serious incident numbers already included in your ICS dashboard (aggregated only)

If any of the above metrics are not held at ICS level, please confirm this.

Please do not extract incident‑level data – I am requesting only metrics already held in your existing dashboard or reporting systems.

1. Number of successful planned home births:

2. Please see below figures: PDF documents were sent to the requester with this response.  If you require a copy of the full response, together with the attachments, please contact NHS GM’s FOI team – nhsgm.foi@nhs.net 
3. NHS GM ICB does not hold this data. To assist you, I have attached below a link to provider NHS Trusts websites with information about how to make a Freedom of Information request, to assist you.

• Bolton NHS Foundation Trust – Freedom of information – Bolton NHS FT (boltonft.nhs.uk)
• Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust – Freedom of Information Requests :: Northern Care Alliance
• Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust – Freedom of Information – Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (mft.nhs.uk)
• Stockport NHS Foundation Trust – Freedom of information – Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
• Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust – Freedom of Information Requests :: Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care (tamesideandglossopicft.nhs…
• Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – WWL Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | FOI Disclosure Log
• The Christie NHS Foundation Trust – Freedom of information disclosure logs (christie.nhs.uk)
• Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust – Freedom of Information :: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
• Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust – Freedom of Information | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT (gmmh.nhs.uk)

4.NHS GM ICB does not collect this information

5. NHS GM ICB does not reliably collect this data over time currently

6. NHS GM ICB does not collect this information.

7. Please see breakdown below: