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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 Hip Replacement
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male
75-79	16,880	5,894	16,866	5,974	17,386	6,260
80-84	14,401	4,076	14,550	4,413	15,299	4,581
85-89	11,231	2,736	11,486	2,816	11,330	2,901
90-94	4,255	927	4,306	921	4,958	1,163
95 & over	1,466	265	1,477	257	1,504	270

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

Patient Age Group	Knee Replacement
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male
75-79	13,484	5,428	12,816	5,263	13,159	5,524
80-84	7,817	3,068	7,565	3,037	7,740	2,898
85-89	2,763	944	2,772	1,015	2,891	1,090
90-94	287	95	284	95	389	127
95 & over	22	10	32	6	22	9

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

Patient Age Group	Coronary artery bypass graft
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male
75-79	701	444	599	397	586	364
80-84	436	285	420	266	407	275
85-89	131	81	129	80	128	86
90-94	12	7	6	5	5	4
95 & over	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

Patient Age Group	Cochlea implant
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male
75-79	33	20	35	14	32	21
80-84	20	7	16	9	16	7
85-89	7	5	5	3	7	1
90-94	2	2	2	2	3	2
95 & over	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

Patient Age Group	Cholecystectomy
	2008-09		2009-10		2010-11
	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male	Total FCEs	Male
75-79	3,057	1,215	3,139	1,330	3,158	1,294
80-84	1,321	515	1,420	581	1,425	588
85-89	486	196	480	168	445	154
90-94	61	23	53	16	69	•25
95 & over	5	-	9	2	6	2

"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 many have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.""² Main procedure" "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 many have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.""² Main procedure" "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 many have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.""² Main procedure" "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.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

16784; 736 c335-8WA

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Older people Surgery

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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