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Health Service

Mr. Benton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what percentage of women in Bootle with suspected breast cancer saw a specialist within two weeks in each of the last five years. [171481]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is not collected on a constituency basis. The information in the table relates to national health service organisations serving the Bootle constituency.
 
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Waiting times for patients referred urgently by their GP with suspected breast cancer to 1st outpatient appointment: NHS Trusts in Crosby

Quarter

NHS Trust
Percentage of patients seen in two weeksTotal patients seenPatients seen in two weeks
1999–20001Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust76.210177
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust80.49778
1999–20002Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
88.210290
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust100.0166166
1999–20003Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
95.0120114
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust99.5210209
1999–20004Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0118118
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust99.5209208
2000–011Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
98.0102100
Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust92.6190176
2000–012Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0155155
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust100.0295295
2000–013Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0155155
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust100.0270270
2000–014Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust100.0143143
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust96.8250242
2001–021Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
99.4157156
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust98.2276271
2001–022Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0175175
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust92.2258238
2001–023Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0225225
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust84.7320271
2001–024Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0198198
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust98.4319314
2002–031Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0234234
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust99.0307304
2002–032Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
99.1223221
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust99.6272271
2002–033Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust99.6255254
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust96.7391378
2002–034Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0229229
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust98.9285282
2003–041Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0221221
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust99.4320318
2003–042Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0265265
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust99.7373372
2003–043Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
100.0271271
Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust100.0374374




Source:
DH form QMCW.





 
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Mr. Borrow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the levels of elective admission to the NHS in South Ribble in the past five years. [171269]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is shown in the table.
Count of in-year elective (waiting time, booked, planned) admissions—PCT of responsibility5F5 Chorley and South Ribble Primary Care Trust—NHS Hospitals, England 1998–99 to 2002–03. Excluding regular attenders.

PCT of responsibility5F2 Chorley and South Ribble
1998–9930,440
1999–200032,827
2000–0134,386
2001–0224,687
2002–0332,671




Notes:
1.   An in-year admission is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one health care provider, excluding admissions beginning before 1 April at the start of the data year. Periods of care on-going at the end of the data year (unfinished admission episodes) are included. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.
2.   Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed).
3.   PCT and strategic health authority (SHA) data was added to historic data-years in the HES database using 2002–03 boundaries, as a one-off exercise in 2004. The quality of the data on PCT of Treatment and SHA of Treatment is poor in 1996–97, 1997–98 and 1998–99, with over a third of all finished episodes having missing values in these years. Data quality of PCT of general practitioner practice and SHA of GP practice in 1997–98 and 1998–99 is also poor, with a high proportion missing values where practices changed or ceased to exist. There is less change in completeness of the residence-based fields over time, where the majority of unknown values are due to missing postcodes on birth episodes. Users of time series analysis including these years need to be aware of these issues in their interpretation of the data.
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.



Tony Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many rapid access chest pain clinics there are in Workington constituency. [170713]


 
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Miss Melanie Johnson: There are no rapid access chest pain clinics based in Workington. However, there is a clinic in Whitehaven.

Health Tourism

Mr. Yeo: To ask the Secretary of State for Health   what assessment his Department has made of the scale of health tourism; and if he will make a statement. [160665]

Mr. Hutton: The national health service has never been required to provide statistics on the number of overseas visitors treated under the provisions of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989. It is therefore not possible to give a definitive assessment of the scale of this matter. Nevertheless, NHS staff operating the charging regime have told us that there are significant issues in some areas, which we are taking action to deal with. We are taking forward a study of 12 NHS trusts across England, the results of which will, over time, help to give us a better understanding of the level of inappropriate use of the NHS by overseas visitors.

In addition, on 14 May I launched a public consultation on proposals to exclude overseas visitors from eligibility for free NHS primary medical services. We are also commissioning a study of the use of these services by overseas visitors which will inform our consideration of the responses to the consultation.

Heart Bypass Operations

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many heart bypass operations there were per million population in (a) England and (b) each strategic health authority in each year since 1997. [172700]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is shown in the table.

Heart bypass operations have increased in number over the past six years. However, angioplasty is increasingly being used to treat patients who would have undergone bypass surgery in the past and the procedures performed in national health service hospitals in England have increased from 17,291 in 1997–98 to 34,986 in 2002–03.
 
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All operations (ICD-10 K40-K46) Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABGs). Count of Finished Consultant Episodes by Strategic Health Authority (SHA) of Residence. NHS Hospitals, England 1997–98 to 2002–03

SHA of Residence1997–981998–991999–20002000–012001–022002–03
Q01Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire HA9761,1481,1111,0151,0401,134
Q02Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire HA928728624721849728
Q03Essex HA475600552752580638
Q04North West London HA940921852929824852
Q05North Central London HA397415410357417405
Q06North East London HA496575528698616591
Q07South East London HA586620506460500517
Q08South West London HA447446476501593566
Q09Northumberland, Tyne and Wear HA844867825837912772
Q10County Durham and Tees Valley HA842875732751650772
Q11North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire HA4178748688788441,070
Q12West Yorkshire HA9751,1089169771,097998
Q13Cumbria and Lancashire HA1,1371,1581,0451,1791,2321,437
Q14Greater Manchester HA1,0501,1601,1851,3011,3951,515
Q15Cheshire and Merseyside HA9961,0181,0841,1041,1371,421
Q16Thames Valley HA641801819793916931
Q17Hampshire and Isle of Wight HA623752749947852769
Q18Kent and Medway HA702738702674739707
Q19Surrey and Sussex HA1,0579741,2111,1941,1911,141
Q20Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire HA8291,0121,1171,0481,073940
Q21South West Peninsula HA6607959419871,061918
Q22Dorset and Somerset HA586656592568502494
Q23South Yorkshire HA518523630632639769
Q24Trent HA6521,0441,0391,0881,0251,124
Q25Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland HA626690625560615588
Q26Shropshire and Staffordshire HA585633645801736825
Q27Birmingham and The Black Country HA1,1531,0951,0301,1329831,226
Q28Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire HA669717682716643686
UEngland Not Otherwise Specified2426
England20,80722,94522,49623,60423,66324,540




Notes:
1. A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.
2. Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (ie the data are ungrossed).
3. All operations count of episodes—these figures represent a count of all FCE's where the procedure was mentioned in any of the 12 (four prior to 2002–03) operation fields in a HES record. A record is only included once in each count, even if an operation is mentioned in more than one operation field of the record. Population figures are not available so only operation counts can be provided.
4. Strategic Health Authority (SHA) Data Quality—SHA data were added to historic data-years in the HES database using 2002–03 boundaries, as a one-off exercise in 2004. The quality of the data on SHA of treatment is poor in 1998–99, with over a third of all finished episodes having missing values in these years. Users of time series analysis including 1998–99 need to be aware of these issues in their interpretation of the data.
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.





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