The following figures represent the published total number of all non-Welsh residents admitted for treatment in Welsh trusts for the periods 1999-2000 to 2008-09 but exclude out-patients. Reliable data prior to 1999 are not available. It is not currently possible to provide information on non-Welsh residents treated as out-patients at Welsh trusts. In the time available it has not proved possible to separate out the number of English residents treated as in-patients at Welsh Trusts but I will write to the hon. Member with this information as soon it is available and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Period Number of patients 1999-2000 9,890 2000-01 9,829 2001-02 10,689 2002-03 10,491 2003-04 10,539 2004-05 10,340 2005-06 12,671 2006-07 12,671 2007-08 12,537 2008-09 11,468
The information is drawn from tables available at
http://www.infoandstats.wales.nhs.uk/home.cfm?orgid=869
Due to a change in the procedures for recording the information figures from 2005 onwards include day-case patients that may have been excluded from statistics in earlier years.