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Health: Elderly People

Answer

The information is shown in the following tables: Mean and Median time waited (days) for finished admissions episodes¹ with the 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
	Mean	Median	Mean	Median	Mean	Median
75-79	28	21	29	21	30	21
80-84	27	20	30	21	28	21
85-89	27	20	28	20	27	21
90-94	27	20	31	21	32	20
95 & over	30	20	32	23	28	20

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

Patient Age Group	Open excision of prostate
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Mean	Median	Mean	Median	Mean	Median
75-79	48	35	43	31	38	29
80-84	44	29	49	34	37	30
85-89	62	61	76	50	55	40
90-94	17	17	128	137	35	35
95 & over	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

Patient Age Group	Breast excision
	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
	Mean	Median	Mean	Median	Mean	Median
75-79	21	17	21	18	20	19
80-84	21	19	24	19	21	20
85-89	21	18	26	20	22	20
90-94	21	19	22	20	22	20
95 & over	22	17	19	18	22	21

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

Patient Age Group	Inguinal hernia repair
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Mean	Median	Mean	Median	Mean	Median
75-79	63	55	66	57	68	61
80-84	63	56	66	57	70	62
85-89	65	54	67	56	69	61
90-94	64	57	64	58	65	55
95 & over	52	46	52	53	68	62

"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
	Mean	Median	Mean	Median	Mean	Median
75-79	35	26	35	25	37	27
80-84	38	26	37	26	38	28
85-89	29	20	81	20	39	34
90-94	-	-	33	33	54	54
95 & over	-	-	-	-	-	-

"Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre""¹ FAE""An FAE is the first period of inpatient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of inpatients, as a person may have more than one admission within the 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 FAE""An FAE is the first period of inpatient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of inpatients, as a person may have more than one admission within the 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 FAE is the first period of inpatient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of inpatients, as a person may have more than one admission within the 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

16783; 736 c333-5WA

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Older people Waiting lists Surgery

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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