Scottish pregnancy, births and neonatal data dashboard
A new home for maternity and neonatal data visualisations
An Official Statistics publication for Scotland
- Published
- 20 January 2026 (Latest release)
- Type
- Statistical report
- Author
- Public Health Scotland
About this release
This quarterly release of the Scottish Pregnancy, Births and Neonatal Data (SPBAND) Dashboard by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents data on measures related to care in 'Pregnancy' and for 'Births and babies' in Scotland.
An additional measure has been added in this release under a new ‘Neonatal’ category - ‘Median corrected gestational age at discharge from specialist neonatal care for babies born at 30-32 weeks gestation’. This measure is a new developmental presentation based on specifications from the National Neonatal Network Data group. The data are sourced from the NeoCareIn+ dataset. Please see the 'About this measure' tab in the dashboard for further information. We welcome any feedback on this new measure and this can be done by contacting phs.matneodatahub@phs.scot.
Birth data submitted from maternity units are thought to be incomplete for NHS Grampian in April to June 2025, for NHS Orkney in January to March 2025 and incomplete for NHS Shetland in January 2024 to September 2025. NHS boards are working to improve data completeness and therefore relevant indicators are likely to change in future data presentations. Caution is advised when interpreting data from boards where submissions are incomplete.
Background
The data displays in the SPBAND dashboard have been developed in response to commitment 67 in The Best Start: five year plan for maternity and neonatal care that says: ‘national level maternity and neonatal dashboards should be developed to facilitate benchmarking and reduce variations in care’.
SPBAND offers three ways to view data: time series charts for individual measures and individual Health Boards; small multiple time series charts, to allow comparison (for a particular measure) across Health Board areas, and a multi-indicator overview that displays multiple measures simultaneously, allowing comparison across Health Board areas.
Further information
Data are shown for up to and including the most recent period for which records are considered near complete. Data for the most recent period should be viewed as provisional. Data for the whole time period shown will be refreshed every time the dashboard page is updated, and data for the most recent periods are likely to change slightly as additional records are submitted to PHS.
Revisions made in this release can be found in the metadata document.
Further analysis and interpretation of annual rates and trends for some measures shown on this dashboard will also be published in the following PHS annual reports:
The next release of this publication will be 7 April 2026.
General enquiries
If you have an enquiry relating to this publication, please contact Celina Davis at phs.maternitystats@phs.scot.
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Older versions of this publication
Versions of this publication released before 16 March 2020 may be found on the Data and Intelligence, Health Protection Scotland or Improving Health websites.