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Dept of Health

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Mr. Geoffrey Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average peri-operative mortality rates for rectal cancer operations were in (a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999 and (d) 2000 for (i) England, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) Walsgrave NHS Trust excluding the St. Cross Hospital at Rugby. [159612] Yvette Cooper: [holding answer 3 May 2001]: The table shows a count of discharges from hospital for patients where the main operation was on the rectum and the main diagnosis was `malignant neoplasm of rectum'. This information is for National Health Service hospitals in England, West Midlands and the Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust in 1996-97 to 1999-2000 and includes both emergency and planned operations undertaken in this period. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Live discharges Mortality 1996-97 Walsgrave NHS Trust 49 {1}-- West Midlands 732 32 England 5,480 228 1997-98 Walsgrave NHS Trust 39 {1}-- West Midlands 694 32 England 5,381 250 1998-99 Walsgrave NHS Trust 58 {1}-- West Midlands 681 32 England 5,649 241 1999-2000 Walsgrave NHS Trust 59 {1}-- West Midlands 675 23 England 5,773 210 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Due to reasons of confidentiality, figures between one and five at trust level are not normally published. Notes: 1. The main operation is the first of four operation fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set, and is usually the most resource intensive performed during the episode. 2. The main diagnosis is the first of seven diagnosis fields in the HES data set, and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital. 3. Figures in this table have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data. 4. The Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust became the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in 2000. 5. The statistics provided are whole trust statistics and include St. Cross Hospital in Rugby for the time it has been a part of the trust. Source: HES Department of Health The average peri-operative rates during the four year period 1996 to 2000 is: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total discharges Mortality Rate percentage 1996-2000 Walsgrave NHS Trust 216 11 5.1 West Midlands 2,901 119 4.1 England 23,212 929 4.0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: The average number of deaths related to rectal cancer operations at the former Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust is less than three per year. Source: Department of Health

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Type

Written question

Reference

368 c363-4W; 159612

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Death Medical treatments Surgery West Midlands University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust Bowel cancer

Contains statistics

Yes

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