The Royal College of Obstetricians and gynaecologists

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PFD history and published report responses

Total PFD reports

Reports received

With response

Report answered by any body

No published response

Private replies may exist

100%

Report response coverage

With response ÷ total reports × 100

These counts describe the reports addressed to this organisation. A response from another body counts for the report; it does not establish that this organisation answered or that every recipient has responded.

How these numbers are counted

PFD reports and published responses

PFD reports: Separate PFD reports in InquestIQ, each counted once. A report can concern several people or be addressed to several organisations. This is not a count of deaths, inquests or PDF files.
With response: Reports with at least one linked published response. The reply can come from any body, including a parent body or someone answering on another organisation's behalf. Several letters still count as one report with a response.
No published response: Reports for which no published response is linked in InquestIQ. A private reply, an unpublished reply or a reply not yet identified may exist.
Response coverage: Reports with a published response divided by total reports, multiplied by 100. For example, 3 out of 4 is 75%. Percentages are rounded. Coverage does not measure whether every recipient answered, replied on time or took adequate action.

Organisation figures

Organisations: Name entries in InquestIQ's recipient directory. Different spellings, historical names, individual sites and parent bodies may have separate entries. The total is not a verified count of distinct legal bodies.
Reports per organisation: Reports addressed to that name entry, counted once for that entry. A report addressed to several organisations appears in each organisation's row, so adding the rows would count some reports more than once.
Combined views: A combined view counts each report once across the selected names. Selecting names does not establish that they are the same organisation. Any published response to the report counts, regardless of sender.
Directory results: The organisation directory initially loads the 500 entries with most reports and displays up to 200 at a time. Searching a name searches all entries. Filtered totals describe the entries in the current result set, not the whole directory.

Dates and annual figures

Reports per year: Reports grouped by the report date recorded in InquestIQ, each counted once in its recorded year. Recent years may cover only part of the year. Dates and labels can still need checking against the original source.
Response percentage by year: On organisation charts, the percentage of that year's listed reports with a linked published response. It does not measure how many replies arrived during that year or within a deadline.

Themes and categories

How themes are produced: Themes are extracted from each report's text by an AI model and reviewed by hand; near-duplicate themes that differ only in wording are merged into one, and the merged name opens the surviving theme. Themes are an index to the reports, not findings by a coroner.
Theme counts: A theme's number is the distinct reports carrying that theme. A report can carry several themes, so theme numbers overlap and should not be added.
Pillar counts: A pillar groups related themes. Its number is the distinct reports carrying at least one of its themes, so it is smaller than the sum of its themes whenever a report carries two of them. A report can sit under more than one pillar. A theme page's main number counts the distinct reports in its list.
Coverage: Themes have been extracted for most but not every report; the Insights page states how many of the reports held have at least one theme.
Category charts: Each category counts reports assigned to it. Reports can appear in several categories, so category bars should not be added to obtain a total of unique reports. Organisation profile charts use the categories recorded on their listed reports.

Figures reflect records currently held in InquestIQ and may change as sources are added or corrected. Read the full counting guide.

Possible name variants

Select names to explore together. Suggestions and community selections have not been verified as the same organisation. A parent body, individual site or predecessor may have different responsibilities. Grouping does not establish that one body has answered for another.