Health Services: Hertfordshire Mike Penning To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished consultant episodes there were at West Hertfordshire Acute Hospital Trust (a) in each specialty and (b) in total excluding the specialties transferred to Dacorum Primary Care Trust in each year since 2000. Andy Burnham 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| | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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|Main specialty |2005-06 |2004-05|2003-04|2002-03|2001-02| 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|Geriatric medicine |— |217|204|199|145| 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|Community medicine |272 |—|—|—|—| 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|Total |272 |217|204|199|145| 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|Notes:Data QualityHospital 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.SpecialtyCare 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 NumbersDue 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 DataFigures 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| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------