Written question asked by Brian Iddon (Labour) on Tuesday, 5 January 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 7 January 2010. It was answered by Ann Keen (Labour) on Thursday, 14 January 2010 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Orthopaedics

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) below knee lower limb amputations and (b) above knee limb amputations have taken place in each strategic health authority in the NHS in each of the last five years.

Answer: Tables providing the number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) where there was a main or secondary procedure of below knee amputation; above knee amputations; other amputations; and amputation of foot or toe by strategic health authority (SHA) of treatment, have been placed in the Library.In 2006-07 there was a SHA configuration change, where 28 SHAs merged into 10. For this reason, data for 2006-07 to 2008-09 are based on the new configuration and the data prior to this are based on the old configuration.It should be noted that the number of FCEs does not represent the number of patients as a patient may have more than one episode within a year.Reference should be made to the footnotes and clinical codes when interpreting the data.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 503 c1085-6W; 309976
Session: 2009-10
Related items: Deposited Paper DEP2010-0107
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects: Orthopaedics
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