To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the rate of ECG testing for heart disease per 1,000 of population in each of the district health authorities in the north-west region.
The available information is given in the table. Patients may be referred for an electrocardiogram to a district other than the one in which they reside. The rates per thousand population may therefore have little significance.
| Requests for electrocardiograms1 (ECGs) and rates per thousand population, North Western region, 1988–89 | |||
| District Health Authority | ECG request | Population estimates (000's) | Requests per 1,000 population |
| Lancaster | 11,835 | 131·1 | 90·2 |
| Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde | 21,743 | 320·0 | 67·9 |
| Preston | 15,413 | 128·1 | 120·4 |
| Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley | 13,381 | 264·8 | 50·5 |
| Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale | 7,308 | 228·3 | 32·0 |
| West Lancashire | 10,196 | 105·4 | 96·8 |
| Chorley and South Ribble | 740 | 196·8 | 3·8 |
| Bolton | 16,726 | 263·6 | 63·4 |
| Bury | 18,316 | 175·0 | 104·7 |
| North Manchester | 20,971 | 139·7 | 150·1 |
| Central Manchester | 22,401 | 122·4 | 183·1 |
| South Manchester | 48,424 | 183·8 | 263·4 |
| Oldham | 14,947 | 219·5 | 68·1 |
| Rochdale | 14,079 | 214·2 | 65·7 |
| Salford | 27,756 | 235·6 | 117·8 |
| Stockport | 22,894 | 290·9 | 78·7 |
| Tameside and Glossop | 15,908 | 247·0 | 64·4 |
| Trafford | 12,471 | 215·8 | 57·8 |
| Wigan | 27,289 | 307·6 | 88·7 |
District Health Authority
| ECG request
| Population estimates (000's)
| Requests per 1,000 population
|
| Total | 342,798 | 3,989·8 | 85·9 |
1 Request for a single diagnostic investigation on an individual, regardless of the number of ECGs involved. Requests for ambulatory ECG monitoring and exercise ECGs are included. | |||
Source:
KH13 return.
Mid 1988 population estimates, Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the number of staff employed in ECG testing for heart disease in each district health authority in the north-west region.
This information is not held centrally.