Format/Length:	n10
HES Item:
National Codes:
Default Codes:

Notes:
NHS NUMBER (MOTHER) is the NHS NUMBER of the mother within the Commissioning Data Set Birth Episode and Commissioning Data Set Home Birth where the baby is recorded by use of NHS NUMBER.

NHS NUMBER (MOTHER) is a segment content data item for a Data Set Segment Row in the following Data Segment Groups for the Maternity Services Secondary Uses Data Set:

• Booking and Dating Scan
• Infectious Diseases and Inherited Blood Disorders
• Antenatal
• Labour and Delivery and
• Postnatal.

See Maternity and Childrens Data Sets Submission Requirements for further information. 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	NHS NUMBERS (MOTHER)