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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 weeks | Total patients seen | Patients seen in two weeks
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19992000 | 1 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust | 76.2 | 101 | 77
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 80.4 | 97 | 78
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19992000 | 2 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 88.2 | 102 | 90
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 100.0 | 166 | 166
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19992000 | 3 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 95.0 | 120 | 114
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 99.5 | 210 | 209
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19992000 | 4 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 118 | 118
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 99.5 | 209 | 208
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200001 | 1 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 98.0 | 102 | 100
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| | Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust | 92.6 | 190 | 176
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200001 | 2 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 155 | 155
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 100.0 | 295 | 295
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200001 | 3 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 155 | 155
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 100.0 | 270 | 270
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200001 | 4 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust | 100.0 | 143 | 143
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 96.8 | 250 | 242
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200102 | 1 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 99.4 | 157 | 156
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 98.2 | 276 | 271
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200102 | 2 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 175 | 175
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 92.2 | 258 | 238
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200102 | 3 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 225 | 225
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 84.7 | 320 | 271
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200102 | 4 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 198 | 198
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 98.4 | 319 | 314
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200203 | 1 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 234 | 234
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 99.0 | 307 | 304
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200203 | 2 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 99.1 | 223 | 221
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 99.6 | 272 | 271
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200203 | 3 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust | 99.6 | 255 | 254
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 96.7 | 391 | 378
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200203 | 4 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 229 | 229
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 98.9 | 285 | 282
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200304 | 1 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 221 | 221
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 99.4 | 320 | 318
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200304 | 2 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 265 | 265
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 99.7 | 373 | 372
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200304 | 3 | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
| 100.0 | 271 | 271
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| | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | 100.0 | 374 | 374
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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) admissionsPCT of responsibility5F5 Chorley and South Ribble Primary Care TrustNHS Hospitals, England 199899 to 200203. Excluding regular attenders.
PCT of responsibility | 5F2 Chorley and South Ribble
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199899 | 30,440
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19992000 | 32,827
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200001 | 34,386
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200102 | 24,687
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200203 | 32,671
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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 200203 boundaries, as a one-off exercise in 2004. The quality of the data on PCT of Treatment and SHA of Treatment is poor in 199697, 199798 and 199899, 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 199798 and 199899 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 199798 to 34,986 in 200203.
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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 199798 to 200203
SHA of Residence | 199798 | 199899 | 19992000 | 200001 | 200102 | 200203
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Q01 | Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire HA | 976 | 1,148 | 1,111 | 1,015 | 1,040 | 1,134
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Q02 | Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire HA | 928 | 728 | 624 | 721 | 849 | 728
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Q03 | Essex HA | 475 | 600 | 552 | 752 | 580 | 638
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Q04 | North West London HA | 940 | 921 | 852 | 929 | 824 | 852
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Q05 | North Central London HA | 397 | 415 | 410 | 357 | 417 | 405
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Q06 | North East London HA | 496 | 575 | 528 | 698 | 616 | 591
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Q07 | South East London HA | 586 | 620 | 506 | 460 | 500 | 517
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Q08 | South West London HA | 447 | 446 | 476 | 501 | 593 | 566
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Q09 | Northumberland, Tyne and Wear HA | 844 | 867 | 825 | 837 | 912 | 772
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Q10 | County Durham and Tees Valley HA | 842 | 875 | 732 | 751 | 650 | 772
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Q11 | North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire HA | 417 | 874 | 868 | 878 | 844 | 1,070
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Q12 | West Yorkshire HA | 975 | 1,108 | 916 | 977 | 1,097 | 998
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Q13 | Cumbria and Lancashire HA | 1,137 | 1,158 | 1,045 | 1,179 | 1,232 | 1,437
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Q14 | Greater Manchester HA | 1,050 | 1,160 | 1,185 | 1,301 | 1,395 | 1,515
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Q15 | Cheshire and Merseyside HA | 996 | 1,018 | 1,084 | 1,104 | 1,137 | 1,421
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Q16 | Thames Valley HA | 641 | 801 | 819 | 793 | 916 | 931
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Q17 | Hampshire and Isle of Wight HA | 623 | 752 | 749 | 947 | 852 | 769
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Q18 | Kent and Medway HA | 702 | 738 | 702 | 674 | 739 | 707
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Q19 | Surrey and Sussex HA | 1,057 | 974 | 1,211 | 1,194 | 1,191 | 1,141
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Q20 | Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire HA | 829 | 1,012 | 1,117 | 1,048 | 1,073 | 940
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Q21 | South West Peninsula HA | 660 | 795 | 941 | 987 | 1,061 | 918
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Q22 | Dorset and Somerset HA | 586 | 656 | 592 | 568 | 502 | 494
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Q23 | South Yorkshire HA | 518 | 523 | 630 | 632 | 639 | 769
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Q24 | Trent HA | 652 | 1,044 | 1,039 | 1,088 | 1,025 | 1,124
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Q25 | Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland HA | 626 | 690 | 625 | 560 | 615 | 588
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Q26 | Shropshire and Staffordshire HA | 585 | 633 | 645 | 801 | 736 | 825
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Q27 | Birmingham and The Black Country HA | 1,153 | 1,095 | 1,030 | 1,132 | 983 | 1,226
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Q28 | Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire HA | 669 | 717 | 682 | 716 | 643 | 686
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U | England Not Otherwise Specified | | 2 | | 4 | 2 | 6
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| England | 20,807 | 22,945 | 22,496 | 23,604 | 23,663 | 24,540
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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 episodesthese figures represent a count of all FCE's where the procedure was mentioned in any of the 12 (four prior to 200203) 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 QualitySHA data were added to historic data-years in the HES database using 200203 boundaries, as a one-off exercise in 2004. The quality of the data on SHA of treatment is poor in 199899, with over a third of all finished episodes having missing values in these years. Users of time series analysis including 199899 need to be aware of these issues in their interpretation of the data.
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.