Table 3.
Comparison of ethnic diversity and IMD scores in LEAP area women allocated to caseload midwifery and traditional care, and women in other postal code areas (all care models)
| Other areas | LEAP area caseload midwifery | LEAP area traditional care | ||||
| Ethnicity | N 8430 |
(%) | N (230) |
(%) | N (293) |
(%) |
| White (British, Irish, other) | 4030 | 47.8 | 81 | 35.2 | 98 | 33.4 |
| Black (African, Caribbean, other) | 1452 | 17.2 | 66 | 28.7 | 79 | 27.0 |
| Asian (including Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, Asian other) | 638 | 7.6 | 6 | 2.6 | 11 | 3.8 |
| Chinese | 200 | 2.4 | 3 | 1.3 | 2 | 0.7 |
| Mixed (including white-black, white-Asian, mixed other) | 357 | 4.2 | 14 | 6.1 | 16 | 5.5 |
| Other ethnic group | 536 | 6.4 | 21 | 9.1 | 17 | 5.8 |
| Not recorded | 1253 | 14.9 | 39 | 17.0 | 70 | 23.9 |
| IMD quintile | ||||||
| 1 (least deprived) | 241 | 2.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 528 | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 1151 | 13.7 | 3 | 1.3 | 4 | 1.4 |
| 4 | 3288 | 39.0 | 89 | 38.7 | 105 | 35.8 |
| 5 (most deprived) | 2361 | 28.0 | 121 | 52.6 | 170 | 58.0 |
| Unknown | 861 | 10.2 | 17 | 7.4 | 14 | 4.8 |
IMD, Index of Multiple Deprivation; LEAP, Lambeth Early Action Partnership.