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Injuries: Dogs

Answer

The information is not available in the format requested. The following tables show the count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) where the external cause code is W54 (bitten or struck by dog) for the strategic health authority (SHA) of treatment, for adults and children admitted to hospital through accident and emergency, over the last five years. A direct comparison is not possible before and after 2006 when the SHAs were restructure, which is why there are two separate tables.

	2005-06	2004-05	2003-04	2002-03
SHA of treatment	Under 18	18 and over	Under 18	18 and over	Under 18	18 and over	Under 18	18 and over
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA	31	99	39	78	46	92	23	66
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire SHA	31	65	30	59	44	67	36	54
Essex SHA	30	75	37	61	26	59	28	54
North West London SHA	11	52	19	29	*	37	19	29
North Central London SHA	13	35	7	21	8	17	11	23
North East London SHA	26	25	24	30	13	33	12	9
South East London SHA	22	34	19	40	9	36	*	43
South West London SHA	22	41	18	31	21	31	16	44
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear SHA	61	107	43	81	45	98	41	60
County Durham and Tees Valley SHA	70	99	62	97	66	97	65	85
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire SHA	29	58	42	59	40	49	30	60
West Yorkshire SHA	95	180	78	130	76	91	88	95
Cumbria and Lancashire SHA	51	65	42	64	39	60	51	42
Greater Manchester SHA	68	142	52	87	49	82	64	75
Cheshire and Merseyside SHA	132	195	123	155	107	122	101	121
Thames Valley SHA	38	104	43	101	41	97	44	79
Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA	29	48	25	34	23	31	37	29
Kent and Medway SHA	10	56	15	38	20	39	60	85
Surrey and Sussex SHA	73	113	73	100	61	88	41	48
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA	54	123	57	101	46	100	44	66
South West Peninsula SHA	22	75	34	59	30	59	22	60
Dorset and Somerset SHA	14	29	14	28	18	20	20	23
South Yorkshire SHA	42	62	36	73	33	69	39	76
Trent SHA	47	108	75	83	62	61	80	81
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland SHA	35	40	27	34	32	36	13	*
Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA	42	56	35	64	27	61	19	52
Birmingham and the Black Country SHA	65	140	57	112	45	79	42	83
West Midlands South SHA	24	55	24	45	25	35	20	44

	2006-07
SHA of treatment	Under 18	18 and over
North East SHA	130	209
North West SHA	241	426
Yorkshire and the Humber SHA	168	353
East Midlands SHA	95	169
West Midlands SHA	146	261
East Of England SHA	106	229
London SHA	127	242
South East Coast SHA	94	190
South Central SHA	75	165
South West SHA	95	266
Notes:
1. FAE
A FAE is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.
2. Data quality:
HES are compiled from data sent by over 300 national health service trusts, and primary care trusts (PCTs) in England. Data are also received from a number of independent sector organisations for activity commissioned by the English NHS. The Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data via HES processes. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain.
3. Ungrossed data:
Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (ie the data are ungrossed).
4. Low numbers:
Due to reasons of confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been suppressed and replaced with ““*””(an asterisk).
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

471 c1078-80W;471 c1080-2W; 182852

Session

2007-08

Related items

Dangerous Dogs
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Commons

Subjects

Dogs Injuries

Link

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