National Maternity Experience Survey
The overall purpose and objective of the National Care Experience Programme is to engage with and understand the experience of patients and use this feedback to inform the future development, planning, design and delivery of patient-centred care.
The target population for the National Maternity Experience Survey includes women aged 16 or over who have given birth in specific months and who hold a postal address in the Republic of Ireland. The National Care Experience Programme will undertake a dedicated survey for women who experience a negative maternity outcome such as a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death in 2022 https://yourexperience.ie/maternity-bereavement/about-the-survey/
**Purpose:** The National Care Experience Programme asks people about their experiences of care in order to improve the quality of health and social care services in Ireland.
All nineteen maternity units/hospitals and the HSE National Home Births Services participate in the National Maternity Experience Survey.
**Coverage:** National.
The National Maternity Experience Survey commenced in 2019 and will be conducted every two-three years and in alternate years to the National Maternity Bereavement Experience Survey.
- Organization
- HIQA
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Access Rights | http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/NON_PUBLIC |
| Frequency | http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/ANNUAL |
| Id | cacc702c-dcce-4827-891d-b3a0b3339413 |
| Identifier | NDC-0092 |
| Isopen | True |
| Issued | 2019-01-01 |
| License Id | cc-by-sa |
| License Title | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
| License Url | http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by-sa |
| Max Typical Age | 75 |
| Metadata Created | 2026-03-19T17:16:41.915537 |
| Metadata Modified | 2026-03-19T17:16:41.915541 |
| Min Typical Age | 18 |
| Modified | 2025-10-28 |
| Name | national-maternity-experience-survey-92 |
| Notes | The overall purpose and objective of the National Care Experience Programme is to engage with and understand the experience of patients and use this feedback to inform the future development, planning, design and delivery of patient-centred care. The target population for the National Maternity Experience Survey includes women aged 16 or over who have given birth in specific months and who hold a postal address in the Republic of Ireland. The National Care Experience Programme will undertake a dedicated survey for women who experience a negative maternity outcome such as a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death in 2022 https://yourexperience.ie/maternity-bereavement/about-the-survey/ **Purpose:** The National Care Experience Programme asks people about their experiences of care in order to improve the quality of health and social care services in Ireland. All nineteen maternity units/hospitals and the HSE National Home Births Services participate in the National Maternity Experience Survey. **Coverage:** National. The National Maternity Experience Survey commenced in 2019 and will be conducted every two-three years and in alternate years to the National Maternity Bereavement Experience Survey. |
| Num Resources | 0 |
| Num Tags | 3 |
| Number Of Records | 1338914 |
| Number Of Unique Individuals | 332379 |
| Private | False |
| Provenance | The National Maternity Experience Survey includes 65 structured, tick-box questions and three open-ended (free-flow) questions. The survey can be completed online or by returning the questionnaire via freepost. The data is collected on an annual basis at two-three year intervals. |
| Title | National Maternity Experience Survey |
| Type | dataset |
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