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Cancer

Answer

The information is not available in the format requested. However, the following table shows the data for 2004–05.

All diagnoses count of finished consultant episodes and patients for cancer in the West Lancashire Primary Care Trust 2004–05
Finished consultant episodes	Patient counts
2,588	1,215
Notes: Finished consultant episode (FCE): 1. An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one health care 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 diagnoses count of episodes: 2. These figures represent a count of all FCE's where the diagnosis was mentioned in any of the 14 (seven prior to 2002–03) diagnosis fields in a hospital episode statistics (HES) record. Diagnosis (primary diagnosis): 3. The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002–03) diagnosis fields in the HES data set and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital. Secondary diagnoses: 4. As well as the primary diagnosis, there are up to 13 (six prior to 2002–03) secondary diagnosis fields in HES that show other diagnoses relevant to the episode of care. Patient counts: 5. Patient counts are based on the unique patient identifier HES identification (HESID). This identifier is derived based on patient's date of birth, postcode, sex, local patient identifier and national health service number, using an agreed algorithm. Where data are incomplete, HESID might erroneously link episodes or fail to recognise episodes for the same patient. Care is therefore needed, especially where duplicate records persist in the data. The patient count cannot be summed across a table where patients may have episodes in more than one cell. Ungrossed data: 6. Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data, that is the data is ungrossed. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

443 c1609-10W;443 c1609-10W; 53397

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Cancer Lancashire

Link

View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk