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Dept of Health

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Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished consultant episodes there were in (a) total and (b) each speciality at York hospitals NHS trust in each year since 1996-97; and how many (i) hip replacements and (ii) cataract operations were carried out in that NHS trust in each year. [222269] Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is shown in the tables. Table 1: Count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) York hospitals national health service trust, 1996-97 to 2003-04 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total FCEs 1996-97 60,956 1997-98 61,177 1998-99 65,143 1999-2000 62,296 2000-01 62,631 2001-02 63,523 2002-03 64,015 2003-04 69,699 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: Finished consultant episode (FCE) An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that the figures do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the year. Grossing Figures are grossed for both coverage and missing/invalid clinical data, except for 2002-03 and 2003-04, which are not yet adjusted for shortfalls. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health Table 2: Count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) by main speciality York hospitals NHS trust, 1996-97 to 2003-04 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Main speciality 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 100 General 7,290 6,929 7,618 7,620 7,493 7,440 8,034 8,727 surgery 101 Urology 4,390 4,319 4,441 4,432 4,860 4,719 4,817 5,345 110 Trauma and 4,375 4,274 4,560 4,468 4,660 4,649 5,158 5,566 Orthopaedi cs 120 Ear Nose & 2,211 1,833 2,134 2,166 2,193 2,301 2,050 2,041 Throat (ENT) 130 Ophthalmol 1,923 1,885 2,175 2,288 2,253 2,272 2,290 2,534 ogy 140 Oral 1,215 1,268 1,351 1,368 1,244 1,223 1,354 1,409 surgery 141 Restorativ 422 397 364 333 336 339 0 0 e Dentistry 160 Plastic 0 0 0 0 0 0 * -- surgery 170 Cardiothor 0 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 acic Surgery 180 Accident 1,361 731 460 134 -- * 29 7 and Emergency (A&E) 190 Anaestheti 1,174 2,345 2,469 2,292 1,906 1,918 1,882 1,879 cs 300 General 10,604 10,961 11,591 12,002 12,888 14,076 15,561 16,536 Medicine 303 Haematolog 814 1,043 1,310 1,391 938 824 667 684 y (clinical) 330 Dermatolog 132 113 170 148 127 103 75 62 y 360 Genito- 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 * urinary Medicine 370 Medical 0 * * 126 348 269 190 165 oncology 400 Neurology 441 409 404 397 429 510 520 670 410 Rheumatolo 290 351 318 265 190 184 172 256 gy 420 Paediatric 3,290 3,321 3,741 4,168 3,908 4,158 4,124 4,651 s 430 Geriatric 4,311 4,561 5,254 5,021 5,216 5,448 6,160 7,756 medicine 502 Gynaecolog 13,553 13,471 13,524 9,622 9,726 9,748 9,310 9,738 y 610 General 200 125 516 1,829 1,772 1,418 1,581 1,631 practice with maternity function 620 General 519 522 480 437 411 370 0 0 Practice other than Maternity 700 Mental 174 53 60 34 31 38 0 0 Handicap 710 Mental 1,288 1,223 1,166 771 821 687 0 0 Illness 711 Child and 72 64 54 47 57 51 0 0 Adolescent Psychiatry 715 Old Age 838 904 854 745 744 696 0 -- Psychiatry 800 Radiothera * 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 py 810 Radiology 0 0 * * 0 0 * * 822 Chemical 67 72 121 190 80 80 38 40 Pathology 824 Histopatho 0 0 0 * 0 0 0 0 logy Total 60,956 61,177 65,143 62,296 62,631 63,523 64,015 69,699 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: Finished consultant episode (FCE) An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that the figures do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the year. Speciality Care is needed when analysing HES data by speciality, or by groups of specialities (such as Acute). Trusts have different ways of managing specialities and attributing codes so it is better to analyse by specific diagnoses, operations or other recorded information. Grossing: Figures are grossed for both coverage and missing/invalid clinical data, except for 2002-03 and 2003-04, which are not yet adjusted for shortfalls. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health Table 3: Count of finished consultant episodes with a hip replacement (OPCS4 codes W37-W39 and W46-W48) or cataract operation (OPCS4 codes C71-C72 and C74-C75) as a main or secondary operation York hospitals NHS trust, 1996-97 to 2003-04 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Hip replacements Cataract operations 1996-97 424 1,010 1997-98 366 1,035 1998-99 435 1,337 1999-2000 426 1,448 2000-01 459 1,392 2001-02 468 1,361 2002-03 506 1,220 2003-04 542 1,529 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: Finished consultant episode (FCE) An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that the figures do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the year. All operations count of episodes These figures represent a count of all FCEs where the procedure was mentioned in any of the 12 (four prior to 2002-03) operation fields in a HES record. A record is only included once in each count, even if an operation is mentioned in more than one operation field of the record. Grossing Figures are grossed for both coverage and missing/invalid clinical data, except for 2002-03 and 2003-04, which are not yet adjusted for shortfalls.

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Written question

Reference

432 c750-2W; 222269

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Consultants Health services NHS trusts Surgery York Hip replacements Cataracts York Hospitals NHS Trust York Health Services NHS Trust

Contains statistics

Yes

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