The following tables show the count of finished consultant episodes by speciality breakdown by West Hertfordshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust and Dacorum Primary Care Trust (PCT) a provider for the period 2000-01 to 2005-06 NHS Hospitals England
Main specialty 2005-06 2004-05 2003-0 4 2002-03 2001-02 2000-01 Not known — * — 16 97 1,243 General surgery 9,697 9,900 9,668 9,195 8,838 9,023 Urology 4,502 4,532 4,658 4,481 4,264 4,180 Trauma and Orthopaedics 7,390 7,246 7,260 7,445 7,432 6,765 Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) 1,236 1,090 1,064 918 1,246 1,229 Ophthalmology 2,074 1,841 1,977 1,173 1,274 1,692 Oral surgery 613 706 800 627 521 962 Restorative dentistry — — — * — — Orthodontics — — — — — * Plastic surgery 8,018 7,712 7,912 7,178 6,679 6,624 Cardiothoracic surgery — — 541 — — 38 A&E 4,800 3,334 554 394 299 237 Anaesthetics 506 442 * 448 464 467 General Medicine 9,313 8,914 8,633 9,469 9,916 8,547 Gastroenterology 5,872 5,767 5,631 5,205 5,498 5,052 Endocrinology 129 200 282 389 676 1,007 Haematology (clinical) 1,928 2,583 2,884 2,761 2,071 892 Rehabilitation — — — * — 134 Palliative Medicine — 331 351 355 400 343 Cardiology 3,691 3,308 2,073 1,416 1,490 1,706 Dermatology 252 551 564 675 850 911 Thoracic medicine 1,714 1,225 1,362 1,305 1,324 1,461 Genitourinary medicine — * — — — — Nephrology 20 46 16 * — * Medical oncology 292 748 707 505 491 538 Neurology 17 17 * 20 23 35 Rheumatology 816 502 393 172 183 89 Paediatrics 5,430 4,998 5,293 4,973 — 2,405 Geriatric medicine 7,313 7,501 6,819 5,930 4,751 4,995 Obstetrics for patients using a hospital bed or delivery facilities 8,619 8,794 8,385 7,648 8,057 6,325 Gynaecology 4,379 4,487 4,616 4,699 5,085 5,495 Mental handicap — * * * — — Radiotherapy 820 4,768 * 4,606 5,138 5,202 Haematology — — 4,688 — 181 1,149 Immunopathology 138 112 96 107 73 15 Total 89,579 91,662 87,245 82,118 77,321 78,765 Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care
Dacorum PCT as a provider Main specialty 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02 Geriatric medicine — 217 204 199 145 Community medicine 272 — — — — Total 272 217 204 199 145 Notes: Data Quality Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) are compiled from data sent by over 300 NHS trusts and PCTs in England. The Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data via HES processes. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain. Finished Consultant Episode (FCE) An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that the figures do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the year. Specialty Care is needed when analysing HES data by specialty, or by groups of specialties (such as Acute). Trusts have different ways of managing specialties and attributing codes so it is better to analyse by specific diagnoses, operations or other recorded information. Low Numbers Due to reasons of confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been suppressed and replaced with ‘*’ (an asterisk). We have used secondary suppression where the total figures were disclosive. Ungrossed Data Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed). Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care