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Rheumatology

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of (a) inpatient and (b) outpatient attendances in the rheumatology speciality in the latest year for which figures are available; and at what average cost. (289457)

We have made no estimate of the number, or cost, of in-patient and out-patient attendances for rheumatology.

However, the total number of ordinary, and day case admissions, to hospital where the main consultant specialty is recorded as rheumatology is given in the following table.

Day case

Ordinary

2006-07

62,707

31,577

2005-06

56,938

32,277

2004-05

53,183

31,530

2003-04

49,003

31,440

2002-03

41,003

32,279

2001-02

33,041

34,056

2000-01

30,331

35,524

1999-2000

27,275

37,033

1998-99

24,045

36,968

1997-98

20,496

38,976

1996-97

17,538

40,053

Note:

A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one health care provider. Finished admission episodes are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.