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Injuries: Offensive Weapons

Answer

The information is not available in the format requested. The Department does not hold data at constituency level. Information has been provided for the North East Strategic Health Authority (SHA), the Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust (PCT) and the Redcar and Cleveland PCT. As part of the national health service organisation restructure in July 2006-07, Langbaurgh PCT merged with part of Middlesbrough PCT to form Redcar and Cleveland PCT.Information has been provided on the number of finished admission episodes for two clinical codes. Code x99 covers assault by a sharp object, and code w26 covers accidental contact knife, sword or dagger. Data for both these clinical codes have been provided for the years 1996-97 to 2008-09. The data that are set out in the following table include all activity in NHS hospitals in England and activity performed in the independent sector in England commissioned by the NHS in England.

Count of admissions to hospital with knife wounds in the North East SHA, and Middlesbrough PCT and Redcar and Cleveland PCT, 1996-97 to 2008-09
	North East SHA	Middlesbrough PCT	Redcar and Cleveland PCT
	W26-Contact with knife, sword or dagger	X99-Assault by sharp object	W26-Contact with knife, sword or dagger	X99-Assault by sharp object	W26-Contact with knife, sword or dagger	X99-Assault by sharp object
2008-09	348	393	30	25	26	20
2007-08	363	361	14	27	16	20
2006-07	362	359	26	42	11	18
2005-06	392	370	46	44	16	11
2004-05	429	384	39	53	24	15
2003-04	434	334	50	50	21	12
2002-03	370	332	46	60	13	10
2001-02	397	350	49	52	19	15
2000-01	336	287	51	49	15	8
1999-2000	339	293	47	41	9	10
1998-99	292	266	40	31	18	*
1997-98	258	247	29	36	12	*
1996-97	222	293	24	26	12	19
Notes:
1. 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. The SHA/PCT of residence contains episodes grouped according to the SHA or PCT containing the patient's normal home address. This reflects where the patients lived but does not necessarily reflect where they were treated, as they may have travelled to another SHA/PCT for treatment. As such, patients treated in the NHS in England but resident outside of England will be included.
3. To protect patient confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 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.
4. HES are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and PCTs in England. Data are also received from a number of independent sector organisations for activity commissioned by the English NHS. The NHS 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.
5. 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 out-patient settings and may no longer be accounted for in the HES data. This may account for any reductions in activity over time.
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), the Information Centre for health and social care.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

501 c940-2W; 303104

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Injuries Knives North East

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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