Statistician/ Perinatal Epidemiologist, Maternity data linkage,

Department, of Midwifery and Child Health, School of Community and Health Sciences, City University London

Reference Number KG/12144  –  Grade 6/7, Two years, full time

City University London is working with partners in England and Wales to enhance the scope of the data available for monitoring maternity care and for research. A considerable range of information is recorded about pregnancy and its outcome but, in England and Wales, these data are recorded in a number of separate information systems, none of which are complete or comprehensive on their own.

The aims of the post are to build on the work already done to link birth registration data to the NHS Numbers for Babies dataset by further linking these data to datasets containing maternity data for England and Wales and to undertake exploratory analyses of data about care given at delivery in relation to gestational age, birthweight and the socio-demographic characteristics of parents recorded at birth registration.

Applicants should be statisticians or data analysts qualified to at least Masters level with experience of statistical data analysis in health related research or social research, preferably but not essentially in the maternity or perinatal field.

Closing date 5pm on March 6 2009. Anyone who wishes to discuss the post informally is invited to ring Alison Macfarlane on 0207 040 5832 or email A.J.Macfarlane@city.ac.uk