About this data

Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips: caesarean section (Hospital Episode Statistics)

• Financial year April 2024 to March 2025.
• Unlike NHS England's national figures, these shares include deliveries where the method was not recorded, so they are about two percentage points lower (43.4% for England, against 45.1%). Areas served by hospitals that record many deliveries without a method can look lower than they are.
• Areas whose figures the source flags as having data quality problems (25 of 296 in 2024-25, mostly because of gaps in hospital records) are not shown. The figure for Hackney includes the City of London.

This chart appears in Child and maternal health.