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FCE Main speciality code Main speciality 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02 2000-01 & Unknown — * — 16 97 1,243 100 General Surgery 9,697 9,900 9,668 9,195 8,838 9,023 101 Urology 4,502 4,532 4,658 4,481 4,264 4,180 110 Trauma & Orthopaedics 7,390 7,246 7,260 7,445 7,432 6,765 120 Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) 1,236 1,090 1,064 918 1,246 1,229 130 Ophthalmology 2,074 1,841 1,977 1,173 1,274 1,692 140 Oral Surgery 613 706 800 627 521 962 141 Restorative dentistry (oral surgery) — — — * — — 143 Orthodontics — — — — — * 160 Plastic Surgery 8,018 7,712 7,912 7,178 6,679 6,624 170 Cardiothoracic Surgery — — — — — 38 180 Accident & Emergency (A&E) 4,800 3,334 541 394 299 237 190 Anaesthetics 506 442 554 448 464 467 191 Pain Management — — * — — — 300 General Medicine 9,313 8,914 8,633 9,469 9,916 8,547 301 Gastroenterology 5,872 5,767 5,631 5,205 5,498 5,052 302 Endocrinology 129 200 282 389 676 1,007 303 Clinical Haematology 1,928 2,583 2,884 2,761 2,071 892 314 Rehabilitation — — — * — 134 315 Palliative Medicine — 331 351 355 400 343 320 Cardiology 3,691 3,308 2,073 1,416 1,490 1,706 330 Dermatology 252 551 564 675 850 911 340 Thoracic Medicine 1,714 1,225 1,362 1,305 1,324 1,461 360 Genitourinary Medicine — * — — — — 361 Nephrology 20 46 16 * — * 370 Medical Oncology 292 748 707 505 491 538 400 Neurology 17 17 15 20 23 35 410 Rheumatology 816 502 393 172 183 89 420 Paediatrics 5,430 4,998 5,293 4,973 0 2,405 430 Geriatric Medicine 7,313 7,501 6,819 5,930 4,751 4,995 501 Obstetrics 8,619 8,794 8,385 7,648 8,057 6,325 502 Gynaecology 4,379 4,487 4,616 4,699 5,085 5,495 700 Learning Disability (previously MH) — * * * — — 713 Psychotherapy — — * — — — 800 Clinical Oncology (previously Radiotherapy) 820 4,768 4,688 4,606 5,138 5,202 823 Haematology — — — — 181 1,149 830 Immunopathology 138 112 96 107 73 15 Total 89,579 91,662 87,245 82,118 77,321 78,761
FCE 1999-2000 1998-99 1997-98 1996-97 Report title Main Speciality code Main speciality RPW RQL RPW RQL RPW RQL RPW RQL & Not known * 296 — 268 — 344 7 184 100 General surgery 4,341 4,607 3,674 5,172 4,215 5,167 4,557 5,829 101 Urology 2,119 2,073 1,516 2,526 1,506 2,810 1,460 2,965 110 Trauma and orthopaedics 3,360 3,133 2,886 3,268 2,968 3,219 3,077 4,136 120 ENT 1,249 — 1,082 — 1,171 — 1,136 — 130 Ophthalmology * 1,176 16 861 116 760 118 1,240 140 Oral surgery 38 2,387 32 2,715 53 2,904 149 3,160 143 Orthodontics — — * — — — — — 160 Plastic surgery 143 5,985 151 5,595 208 6,649 237 5,764 180 Accident and emergency 318 — 341 — 376 — 268 — 190 Anaesthetics 122 209 116 368 102 343 173 300 300 General medicine — 9,703 * 10,612 31 9,922 727 9,729 301 Gastroenterology 4,050 146 3,721 918 3,743 1,144 2,777 929 302 Endocrinology 1,466 — 1,349 — 1,157 — 833 — 303 Haematology (clinical) — 456 — 690 — 1,044 — 691 315 Palliative medicine — 395 — 353 — 449 — 387 320 Cardiology 1,473 — 1,416 — 1,406 — 1,153 — 330 Dermatology 846 42 713 33 882 76 856 73 340 Thoracic medicine 1,403 — 1,067 9 1,222 * 1,138 — 361 Nephrology * — — — * — — — 370 Medical oncology — 43 — — — — — — 400 Neurology 34 10 23 22 * * 8 10 410 Rheumatology 45 — 33 170 28 404 50 357 420 Paediatrics 5,106 3,217 4,976 6,668 5,537 7,272 5,726 6,367 430 Geriatric medicine 4,409 1,749 4,461 1,910 4,268 2,351 3,637 2,152 501 Obstet for pats using a hosp bed 5,503 3,640 5,156 3,566 5,352 4,384 5,192 3,822 502 Gynaecology 2,260 2,752 1,946 2,460 2,374 2,669 2,943 2,992 800 Radiotherapy 985 4,475 956 5,021 882 4,761 362 3,903 823 Haematology 1,223 — 770 — 1,159 — 1,077 — Total 40,496 46,494 36,401 53,205 38,756 56,678 37,661 54,990 Combined total 86,990 89,606 95,434 92,651 Notes: 1. Data Quality Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) are compiled from data sent by over 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts (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. 2. Assessing growth through time HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. During the years that these records have been collected by the NHS there have been ongoing improvements in quality and coverage. These improvements in information submitted by the NHS have been particularly marked in the earlier years and need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. Changes in NHS practice also need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. For example a number of procedures may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and may no longer be accounted in the HES data. This may account for any reductions in activity over time. 3. FCE An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one health care 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. 4. 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. Trusts may change the way they manage speciality codes through time. Speciality code 420—For the period 2001/02 no data was received from the trust for this speciality. This has been investigated with the trust but no conclusive cause has been found. 5. Ungrossed Data Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed). 6. Low Numbers Due to reasons of confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been suppressed and replaced with an “*” (an asterisk). Where it was possible to identify numbers from the total due to a single suppressed number in a row or column, an additional smallest number have been suppressed in order to protect. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care