Dataset Information

Impact of managed clinical networks on NHS specialist neonatal services in England: population based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the impact of reorganisation of neonatal specialist care services in England after a UK Department of Health report in 2003.

Design

A population-wide observational comparison of outcomes over two epochs, before and after the establishment of managed clinical neonatal networks.

Setting

Epoch one: 294 maternity and neonatal units in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, 1 September 1998 to 31 August 2000, as reported by the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Sudden Deaths in Infancy Project 27/28. Epoch two: 146 neonatal units in England contributing data to the National Neonatal Research Database at the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit, 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2010.