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West Hertfordshire NHS Acute Trust: Consultants

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished consultant episodes there were at West Herts NHS Acute Trust (a) in each specialty and (b) in total in each year since 1996-97. [193399]

Mr. Bradshaw: Until 2000, the current West Hertfordshire NHS Acute Trust was divided into two trusts: St. Albans and Hemel Hempstead NHS Trust and Mount Vernon and Watford NHS Trust. The number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) in each speciality and in total at the two trusts from 1996-2000 and in West Hertfordshire NHS Acute Trust in 2000-07 are set out in the following tables. The latest year for which information is available is 2007.


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Number of FCEs in each speciality and in total at St. Albans and Hemel Hempstead NHS Trust and Mount Vernon and Watford NHS Trust 1996-2000
1996-97 1997-98
Specialty St. Albans and Hemel Hempstead NHS Trust Mount Vernon and Watford NHS Trust Total St. Albans and Hemel Hempstead NHS Trust Mount Vernon and Watford NHS Trust Total

Not known

7

184

191

344

344

General Surgery

4,557

5,829

10,386

4,215

5,167

9,382

Urology

1,460

2,965

4,425

1,506

2,810

4,316

Trauma and Orthopaedics

3,077

4,136

7,213

2,968

3,219

6,187

Ear, Nose and Throat

1,136

1,136

1,171

1,171

Ophthalmology

118

1,240

1,358

116

760

876

Oral Surgery

149

3,160

3,309

53

2,904

2,957

Orthodontics

Plastic Surgery

237

5,764

6,001

208

6,649

6,857

Accident and Emergency

268

268

376

376

Anaesthetics

173

300

473

102

343

445

General Medicine

727

9,729

10,456

31

9,922

9,953

Gastroenterology

2,777

929

3,706

3,743

1,144

4,887

Endocrinology

833

833

1,157

1,157

Haematology (Clinical)

691

691

1,044

1,044

Palliative Medicine

387

387

449

449

Cardiology

1,153

1,153

1,406

1,406

Dermatology

856

73

929

882

76

958

Thoracic Medicine

1,138

1,138

1,222

*

1,222

Nephrology

*

Medical Oncology

Neurology

8

10

18

*

*

Rheumatology

50

357

407

28

404

432

Paediatrics

5,726

6,367

12,093

5,537

7,272

12,809

Geriatric Medicine

3,637

2,152

5,789

4,268

2,351

6,619

Obstetrics for patients using a hospital bed

5,192

3,822

9,014

5,352

4,384

9,736

Gynaecology

2,943

2,992

5,935

2,374

2,669

5,043

Radiotherapy

362

3,903

4,265

882

4,761

5,643

Haematology

1,077

1,077

1,159

1,159

Total

37,661

54,990

92,651

38,756

56,678

95,434


1998-99 1999-2000
Specialty St. Albans and Hemel Hempstead NHS Trust Mount Vernon and Watford NHS Trust Total St. Albans and Hemel Hempstea d NHS Trust Mount Vernon and Watford NHS Trust Total

Not known

268

268

*

296

296

General Surgery

3,674

5,172

8,846

4,341

4,607

8,948

Urology

1,516

2,526

4,042

2,119

2,073

4,192

Trauma and Orthopaedics

2,886

3,268

6,154

3,360

3,133

6,493

Ear, Nose and Throat

1,082

1,082

1,249

1,249

Ophthalmology

16

861

877

*

1,176

1,176

Oral Surgery

32

2,715

2,747

38

2,387

2,425

Orthodontics

*

0

Plastic Surgery

151

5,595

5,746

143

5,985

6,128

Accident and Emergency

341

341

318

318

Anaesthetics

116

368

484

122

209

331

General Medicine

*

10,612

10,612

9,703

9,703

Gastroenterology

3,721

918

4,639

4,050

146

4,196

Endocrinology

1,349

1,349

1,466

1,466

Haematology (Clinical)

690

690

456

456

Palliative Medicine

353

353

395

395

Cardiology

1,416

1,416

1,473

1,473

Dermatology

713

33

746

846

42

888

Thoracic Medicine

1,067

9

1,076

1,403

1,403

Nephrology

0

*

Medical Oncology

0

43

43

Neurology

23

22

45

34

10

44

Rheumatology

33

170

203

45

45

Paediatrics

4,976

6,668

11,644

5,106

3,217

8,323

Geriatric Medicine

4,461

1,910

6,371

4,409

1,749

6,158

Obstetrics for patients using a hospital bed

5,156

3,566

8,722

5,503

3,640

9,143

Gynaecology

1,946

2,460

4,406

2,260

2,752

5,012

Radiotherapy

956

5,021

5,977

985

4,475

5,460

Haematology

770

770

1,223

1,223

Total

36,401

53,205

89,606

40,496

46,494

86,990


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