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Injuries: Offensive Weapons

Answer

Information is not available in the format requested. The number of finished admission episodes for stab wounds and gunshot wounds at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust is shown in the following table.

A count of finished admission episodes¹ where the external cause code² was injuries by knife or firearm at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust from 2008-09 to 2004-05³, 4
	Bedford Hospital NHS Trust
	Knife	Gunshot
2008-09	30	*
2007-08	21	*
2006-07	19	*
2005-06	23	*
2004-05	13	*
¹ Finished admission episodes
A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Finished admission episodes are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes. It should be noted that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.
² External Cause Codes
The ICD-10 Code used to reflect injury by sharp object or firearm are:
Knife Wounds
W26—Contact with knife, sword or dagger
X78 Intentional self-harm by sharp object
This code identifies self-harm by any sharp object, and therefore includes (but is not limited to) self-harm with a knife.
X99—Assault by sharp object
This code identifies assault by any sharp object and therefore includes but is not limited to assault with a knife.
Gunshot Wounds
W32—Handgun discharge
W33—Rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge
W34—Discharge from other and unspecified firearms
X72—Intentional self-harm by handgun discharge
X73—Intentional self-harm by rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge
X74—Intentional self-harm by other and unspecified firearm discharge
X93—Assault by handgun discharge
X94—Assault by rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge
X95—Assault by other and unspecified firearm discharge
Y22—Handgun discharge, undetermined intent
Y23—Rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge, undetermined intent
Y24—Other and unspecified firearm discharge, undetermined intent
Y28—Contact with sharp object, undetermined intent
Y35.0—Legal intervention involving firearm discharge
Y36.4—War operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare
³ Assessing growth through time
HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. The quality and coverage of the data have improved over time. These improvements in information submitted by the NHS have been particularly marked in the earlier years and need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. Some of the increase in figures for later years (particularly 2006-07 onwards) may be due to the improvement in the coverage of independent sector activity. Changes in NHS practice also need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. For example, a number of procedures may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and may no longer be accounted for in the HES data. This may account for any reductions in activity over time.
4 Activity in English national health services Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
Small numbers
To protect patient confidentiality, figures between one and five have been suppressed and replaced with "*" (an asterisk). Where it was possible to identify numbers from the total due to a single suppressed number in a row or column, an additional number (the next smallest) has been suppressed.
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

501 c939-40W; 302922

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Bedfordshire Injuries Offensive weapons

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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