Trusts are asked to provide: the number of women whose commencement of induction of labour (IOL) is delayed >6 hours from point of admission for induction (from home or ward).

Number of delays is compared to number of deliveries (derived from a historic average) as reported in the Maternity Services Dataset (MSDS).

Further details of how the number of Maternity Services Dataset deliveries are derived, plus additional information on metric construction.