Maternity Survey 2021
This survey looks at the experiences of women across the maternity pathway. The survey has been running since 2007.
Information on this survey from other years can be found using the filter bar on the right of this page. You can contact the Survey Coordination Centre about the Maternity Survey by email.
Design and Development
In this category, you will find documents relating to the design and development stage of the survey. This includes the survey development report detailing the full development process for the survey, ethical and information governance approvals.
Survey Materials
In this category, you will find the survey materials. These include the dissent posters which should be displayed in each trust throughout the sampling month or period.
- Accessible formats - Braille Cover Letter v1.docx
- Accessible formats - Easy Read Questionnaire v1.docx
- Accessible formats - Large Print Cover Letter v1.docx
- Briefing note for young mothers leaflet.docx
- Core questionnaire v1.docx
- Core questionnaire v1.pdf
- Dissent poster Arabic.pdf
- Dissent poster Bengali.pdf
- Dissent poster English.docx
- Dissent poster French.pdf
- Dissent poster Gujarati.pdf
- Dissent poster Kurdish Sorani.pdf
- Dissent poster Polish.pdf
- Dissent poster Portuguese.pdf
- Dissent poster Punjabi.pdf
- Dissent poster Romanian.pdf
- Dissent poster Spanish.pdf
- Dissent poster Urdu.pdf
- Mailing 1 letter v2.docx
- Mailing 2 letter v2.docx
- Mailing 3 letter v2.docx
- Mailing 4 letter v2.docx
- Multilanguage sheet v1.docx
- SMS guidance v1.pdf
- Young mothers leaflet.docx
Instructions and Guidance
In this category, you will find all the instruction and guidance materials needed by an NHS Trust or approved contractor to implement the survey. It also includes documents to help support NHS Trusts with the contractual arrangements for working with an approved contractor.
- Attributing antenatal and postnatal care guidance v1.pdf
- Attribution data spreadsheet v3.xlsx
- Data Cleaning Guidance V1.pdf
- Data Entry Checklist V1.docx
- Data Entry Spreadsheet V3.xls
- Sample construction contractors v1.xlsx
- Sample construction in house trusts v3.xlsx
- Sample declaration form contractors v1.xlsx
- Sample declaration form in-house trusts v1.xlsx
- Sampling Instructions v2.pdf
- Survey handbook V2.pdf
Analysis and Reporting
In this category, you will find reports and datasets that can help support any analysis you might want to do and help to explain the survey results more widely.
Benchmark Reports
In this category, you will find benchmark reports for the survey. If you experience any problems downloading the report(s) you need, please email Patient.Survey@cqc.org.uk and we can send you a copy directly.
View all Benchmark Reports available for this survey