Statistics release announcement

Breastfeeding and 12 week risk assessment, Q2

This collection reports on the number and proportion of women seen and assessed by a healthcare professional within 12 weeks and 6 days of their maternity, the number and proportion of mothers’ who have initiated or not initiated breastfeeding and the number and proportion of infants who have been fully, partially or not at all breastfed at 6-8 weeks. Data are shown at provider organisation level from NHS Trusts & NHS Foundation Trusts, at Clinical Commissioning Group, NHS England Area Team & England on a Quarterly basis. Annually data are reported at the additional geographies of Local Authority District and General Practice.

These statistics will be released on 8 January 2015 9:30am