Maternity Survey 2023
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.
- 16-17 year olds leaflet.docx
- Accessible formats - Braille Cover Letter.docx
- Accessible formats - Easy Read Questionnaire v2.docx
- Accessible formats - Large Print Cover Letter V2.docx
- Briefing note for 16-17 year olds leaflet.pdf
- Core Questionnaire V2.docx
- Core Questionnaire V2.pdf
- Dissent poster Arabic.docx
- Dissent poster Bengali.docx
- Dissent poster English.docx
- Dissent poster French.docx
- Dissent poster Gujarati.docx
- Dissent poster Kurdish Sorani.docx
- Dissent poster Polish.docx
- Dissent poster Portuguese.docx
- Dissent poster Punjabi.docx
- Dissent poster Romanian.docx
- Dissent poster Spanish.docx
- Dissent poster Urdu.docx
- Mailing 1 letter.docx
- Mailing 2 letter.docx
- Mailing 3 letter.docx
- Mailing 4 letter.docx
- Multilanguage sheet.docx
- SMS guidance.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.
- Attribution Data Instructions V2.pdf
- Attribution Data Spreadsheet V1.xlsx
- Data Cleaning Guidance V1.pdf
- Data Entry Checklist V1.docx
- Data Entry Spreadsheet V1.xls
- Sample construction form - contractors.xlsx
- Sample construction form - in house trusts V2.xlsx
- Sample declaration form - contractor.xlsx
- Sample declaration form - in-house.xlsx
- Sampling Flowchart.pdf
- Sampling Instructions V2.pdf
- Survey Handbook.pdf
- Weekly Fieldwork monitoring template.xlsx
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