Page last updated: 9-JUN-2004

Pregnancy Information

The following information is available :

Abortions - Information on notifications, to the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, of terminations of pregnancy under the Abortion Act 1967.

Teenage Pregnancies - Information on the number and rate of pregnancies in young women under the age of twenty, including cases based on maternities (pregnancies ending in live or stillbirth) and pregnancies resulting in a therapeutic abortion or miscarriage which required hospital inpatient or day-case treatment.

Maternal Smoking - data are available by NHS Board area at booking & first visit and
Deprivation by age & year of birth.

Maternal Age - Information on the maternal age of the mother.

Health impact of drug misuse - Link to document.

Miscarriage - Information is available by health board of residence and maternal age.


Main contact: Email Maternity