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Delivery Rates

The Portland Hospital provides a safe and reassuring environment for maternity care with 1,954 babies born in 2006. Our increasingly popular midwifery led delivery service, which advocates the benefits of developing close relationships with a midwife, maintains a vaginal delivery rate of 77%.

Our consultant obstetricians are amongst the leading practitioners in their field, often attracting mothers-to-be whose pregnancy may encounter medical complications or those who are privately insured. This contributes to our planned Caesarean section rate of 34%, with emergency Caesareans contributing to 16% of all births at The Portland Hospital in 2005. Our overall delivery rate for vaginal births is 50% for 2006.

Of the women choosing The Portland Hospital for their maternity care, 87% were over 31 years of age, an age ratio which is higher than average NHS units.