National Perinatal Reporting System (NPRS)
Healthcare Pricing Office
1969 — pilot.
1970s — rolled out to all acute public hospitals.
To maintain a timely accurate national database of key perinatal indicators over time. Collection, processing, management and reporting of data on all births nationally that meets the needs of the data users (including policy-makers, clinical teams and researchers), through the development and support of the system.
All maternity hospitals/departments and independent midwives report to NPRS covering 100% of births in Ireland.
The National Perinatal Reporting System (NPRS) has as its principal aim the provision of national statistics on perinatal events.
The information collected includes: data on pregnancy outcomes (with particular reference to perinatal mortality and important aspects of perinatal care); descriptive social and biological characteristics of mothers giving birth.
Irish maternity hospitals/departments and independent midwives.
All births are registered and notified on a standard four-part birth notification form which is completed where the birth takes place. Part three of this paper form is sent to the HPO office for data entry and validation. Approximately 40% of hospitals submit data electronically to the NPRS system.
Yes, http://www.hpo.ie/
International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for the coding of morbidity and mortality data.
Approximately 66,000 records created on average annually.
Perinatal Statistics Report. Annual reports published on HPO website.
NPRS datasets are provided to a number of state agencies in order to address specific data requirements. Data requests can be submitted to nprs@hpo.ie directly. In addition, annual reports on perinatal statistics on the HPO website.
Yes
Between 1990 and 2013 the NPRS was managed by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).