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Health: Elderly People

Answer

The information is shown in the following tables: Total number of finished consultant episodes (FCE)¹ and FCEs where the patient gender is male with main operative procedure² as specified by patient age group for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.

Patient Age Group	Colorectal excision
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male
75-79	12,506	6,780	13,628	7,423	14,982	8,259
80-84	8,456	4,276	9,060	4,704	9,659	4,888
85-89	3,970	1,803	4,396	1,953	4,426	2,057
90-94	604	237	694	242	886	323
95 & over	105	34	110	31	77	25

"Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre"

Patient Age Group	Open excision of prostate
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male
75-79	283	283	271	271	263	263
80-84	92	92	103	103	75	75
85-89	19	19	22	22	16	16
90-94	3	3	3	3	2	2
95 & over	-	-	-	-	1	1

"Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre"

Patient Age Group	Breast excision
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male
75-79	3,001	39	3,154	49	3,213	48
80-84	1,938	44	2,009	36	2,102	41
85-89	891	13	995	14	995	18
90-94	186	1	235	4	228	5
95 & over	28		36	1	44	-

"Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre"

Patient Age Group	Inguinal hernia repair
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male
75-79	7,117	6,417	6,781	6,119	6,599	5,967
80-84	4,845	4,297	4,722	4,164	4,548	4,010
85-89	2,285	1,964	2,238	1,902	2,236	1,892
90-94	428	334	500	394	511	421
95 & over	69	46	78	57 _	74	48

"Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre"

Patient Age Group	Abdominal aortic aneurysm aorta replacement
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male
75-79	828	673	741	620	595	493
80-84	559	432	454	344	397	318
85-89	161	113	133	95	134	98
90-94	7	6	5	3	7	6
95 & over	-	-	-	-	-	1

"Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre""¹ FCE""An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.""² Main procedure""The first recorded procedure or intervention in each episode, usually the most resource intensive procedure or intervention performed during the episode. It is appropriate to use main procedure when looking at admission details, (eg time waited), ""but a more complete count of episodes with a particular procedure is obtained by looking at the main and the secondary procedures." "¹ FCE""An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.""² Main procedure""The first recorded procedure or intervention in each episode, usually the most resource intensive procedure or intervention performed during the episode. It is appropriate to use main procedure when looking at admission details, (eg time waited), ""but a more complete count of episodes with a particular procedure is obtained by looking at the main and the secondary procedures." "An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.""² Main procedure""The first recorded procedure or intervention in each episode, usually the most resource intensive procedure or intervention performed during the episode. It is appropriate to use main procedure when looking at admission details, (eg time waited), ""but a more complete count of episodes with a particular procedure is obtained by looking at the main and the secondary procedures." "² Main procedure""The first recorded procedure or intervention in each episode, usually the most resource intensive procedure or intervention performed during the episode. It is appropriate to use main procedure when looking at admission details, (eg time waited), ""but a more complete count of episodes with a particular procedure is obtained by looking at the main and the secondary procedures." "The first recorded procedure or intervention in each episode, usually the most resource intensive procedure or intervention performed during the episode. It is appropriate to use main procedure when looking at admission details, (eg time waited), ""but a more complete count of episodes with a particular procedure is obtained by looking at the main and the secondary procedures."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

16781; 736 c329-32WA

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Older people Surgery

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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