(2) how many people in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England received renal replacement therapy in each year since 1997.
There is no national registry of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Over 99.9 per cent., of people with CKD will be under the care of general practitioners (GPs) and not seen by secondary or tertiary hospital services.
At general practice level, maintenance of a practice register of patients with CKD became a part of the quality and outcomes framework in April 2006, which in due course should mean that a very rich dataset will be available for every community in the country.
The United Kingdom Renal Registry (UKRR) holds data on patients receiving renal replacement therapy. The Newcastle renal unit has only been returning these data to the UKRR since 2002. The registry has analysed this data and determined that the number of people receiving renal replacement therapy in South Tyneside at the end of each year since then is in the following table.
As of 31 December Number 2002 78 2003 83 2004 89 2005 97
In the North East of England, the number of people receiving renal replacement therapy at the end of each year is in the following table.
As of 31 December Number 2002 1,469 2003 1,501 2004 1,571 2005 1,635
Across England, the number of people receiving renal replacement therapy at the end of each year is in the following table.
As of 31 December Number 2002 30,966 2003 31,248 2004 32,256 2005 34,574
Data on the number of patients receiving renal replacement therapy are not collected by parliamentary constituency.
There is no specific waiting list for dialysis. Dialysis is often an emergency treatment, and patients with no kidney function will die in a matter of weeks if they do not receive dialysis. For patients whose disease has been identified well in advance of end-stage renal failure, dialysis begins at a time that they and their consultant feel is appropriate.
These data are not collected centrally.