HC Deb 23 July 1996 vol 282 cc226-9W
Mr. Chisholm

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each NHS trust in Scotland the number of patients readmitted within one month of discharge in each of the last five years. [38396]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information requested is laid out in the table. The reason for a patient being readmitted is not necessarily related to the reason for original admission. The longer after discharge that a patient is readmitted, the less likely the reasons are related.

Readmissions within 28 days of discharge
NHS Trust, 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
South Ayrshire Hospitals NHS Trust 998 1,293 3,499 3,985 4,162
North Ayrshire Hospitals and Arran NHS Trust 2,813 3,157 3,493 5,259 4,659
Ayrshire and Arran Community Health Care NHS Trust 992 836 230 232 246
Borders General Hospital Acute Unit 1,207 1,328 1,598 1,701 1,869
Borders Community Health Services 239 232 147 219 242
Dumbarton Unit 728 979 1,173 1,324 1,565
Argyll and Bute Unit 862 968 1,017 1,190 1,117
Royal Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust 2,059 2,580 2,988 3,677 3,417
Inverclyde Royal NHS Trust 1,623 1,805 1,901 1,842 2,113
Renfrewshire Healthcare NHS Trust 131 156 170 146 167
Queen Margaret Hospital NHS Trust 2 3 18 1,470 2,498
Fife Healthcare NHS Trust 1,235 1,508 1,684 1,210 508
Kirkcaldy Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 2,284 2,620 2,918 2,697 3,330
Continuing Care for the Elderly Unit 3,250 2,200 1,037 107 79
Southern General Hospital NHS Trust 3,160 2,746 3,304 3,620 4,330
The Yorkhill NHS Trust 3,717 3,382 2,836 3,449 4,248
The Victoria Infirmary NHS Trust 2,259 2,589 3,229 3,622 3,651
West Glasgow Hospitals University NHS Trust 6,916 8,828 10,246 13,456 13,952
Glasgow Royal Infirmary University NHS Trust 6,291 7,313 7,810 9,196 9,404
Stobhill NHS Trust 4,413 4,119 4,795 5,540 5,430
Raigmore Hospital NHS Trust 2,203 2,311 2,731 2,645 3,224
Caithness and Sunderland NHS Trust 378 340 522 500 612
Highland Communities NHS Trust 446 403 473 590 737
Community and Priority Services Unit 142 142 179 167 179
Monklands and Bellshill Hospitals NHS Trust 3,136 3,358 3,548 4,026 4,161
Law Hospitals NHS Trust 2,468 2,702 3,080 3,382 3,950
Hairmyres and Stonehouse Hospitals NHS Trust 2,642 2,982 3,715 5,254 5,636
Aberdeen Royal Hospitals NHS Trust 6,818 7,315 7,776 7,887 6,202
Grampian Healthcare NHS Trust 1,544 1,370 1,396 1,546 1,528
Moray Health Services NHS Trust 545 553 537 680 894
Orkney Health Board Unit 176 239 209 228 281
West Lothian NHS Trust 1,945 2,218 2,633 2,670 2,832
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust 6,682 6,790 7,624 8,408 9,570

Readmissions within 28 days of discharge
NHS Trust 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Edinburgh Sick Children's NHS Trust 1,287 1,437 1,571 1,749 1,752
Western General Hospitals NHS Trust 4,800 6,673 8,475 10,979 12,092
East and Midlothian NHS Trust 1,131 1,124 1,433 1,535 1,681
Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust 429 317 90 103 117
Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 5,128 5,501 5,456 6,432 6,945
Perth and Kinross Healthcare NHS Trust 1,362 1,489 1,708 1,991 2,258
Dundee Healthcare NHS Trust 272 343 253 252 280
Agnus NHS Trust 907 909 944 1,095 1,331
Stirling Royal Infirmary NHS Trust 2,063 2,541 2,795 2,756 2,765
Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary NHS Trust 1,905 2,070 2,146 2,303 2,448
Western Isles Health Board 358 391 467 495 479
Community Services Unit 163 186 181 196 227
Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity Hospitals NHS Trust 1,693 2,190 2,534 2,941 3,210
Shetland Hospitals and Community Services Unit 316 314 343 477 433
Other1 2,739 2,524 1,287 549 211
Total 101,070 107,374 118,229 136,068 145,013
1 Includes closed hospitals, discontinued specialities within hospitals, various convalescent nursing homes etc.

Mr. Chisholm

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each trust in Scotland for each of the last five years the number of patients who were readmitted to hospital within three months of discharge. [39204]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information requested is laid out in the table. The reason for a patient being readmitted to hospital is not necessarily related to the reason for original admission. The longer after discharge that a patient is readmitted, the less likely it is that the reasons are related.

Total readmissions within three months of discharge
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Aberdeen Royal Hospitals NHS Trust 12,645 13,437 14,333 14,723 15,267
Angus NHS Trust 2,003 1,853 1,950 2,341 2,560
Argyll and Bute Unit 1,653 1,796 1,900 2,201 2,135
Ayrshire and Arran Community Care NHS Trust 1,708 1,526 504 495 547
Borders Community Health Services 483 447 336 435 473
Borders General Hospital Acute Unit 2,343 2,532 3,084 3,339 3,645
Caithness and Sutherland NHS Trust 744 741 1,062 1,063 1,258
Community and Priority Services Unit 348 400 444 423 415
Community Services Unit 465 500 493 522 528
Continuing Care for the Elderly Unit 4,143 2,696 1,330 216 161
Dumbarton Unit 1,604 1,832 2,289 2,438 2,838
Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity Hospitals NHS Trust 3,715 4,132 4,682 5,273 5,715
Dundee Healthcare

Total readmissions within three months of discharge
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
NHS Trust 595 709 667 580 673
Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 9,802 10,396 10,510 11,880 13,043
East and Midlothian NHS Trust 2,302 2,226 2,905 3,183 3,418
Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust 831 619 208 248 270
Edinburgh Sick Children's NHS Trust 2,074 2,340 2,613 2,776 2,828
Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary NHS Trust 4,097 4,441 4,450 4,613 4,719
Fife Healthcare NHS Trust 2,353 2,825 3,097 2,194 1,145
Glasgow Royal Infirmary University NHS Trust 11,726 12,873 13,502 15,144 15,780
Grampian Healthcare NHS Trust 3,178 2,799 3,064 3,175 3,284
Hairmyres and Stonehouse hospitals NHS Trust 5,064 5,546 6,512 8,238 8,623
Inverclyde Royal NHS Trust 3,302 3,443 3,738 3,883 4,127
Highland Communities NHS Trust 951 985 1,153 1,290 1,520
Kirkcaldy Acute hospitals NHS Trust 4,504 5,127 5,760 5,350 6,228
Law Hospital NHS Trust 4,758 5,604 5,621 6,153 6,917
Monklands and Bellshill hospitals NHS Trust 5,230 5,604 5,933 6,443 6,604
Moray Health Services NHS Trust 1,152 1,209 1,187 1,295 1,749
North Ayrshire and Arran NHS Trust 5,010 5,709 6,234 8,298 8,158
Orkney Health Board 355 453 439 426 500
Others 5,194 5,200 2,786 1,232 410
Perth and Kinross Healthcare NHS Trust 2,712 2,948 3,325 3,858 4,110
Queen margaret Hospital NHS Trust 15 10 32 2,619 4,436
Raigmore Hospital NHS Trust 4,455 4,773 5,304 5,472 5,998
Renfrewshire Healthcare NHS Trust 283 334 356 320 344
Royal Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust 4,160 5,110 5,780 6,945 6,648
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust 12,982 12,582 13,792 15,017 16,769
Shetland Hospitals and Community Services Unit 620 627 687 768 771
South Ayrshire Hospitals NHS Trust 2,235 2,897 6,466 7,140 7,401
Southern General Hospitals NHS Trust 5,808 5,491 6,275 7,232 8,399
Stirling Royal Infirmary NHS Trust 4,255 5,114 5,619 5,724 5,614
Stobhill NHS Trust 7,788 7,585 8,350 9,363 9,539
The Victoria Infirmary NHS Trust 4,536 4,894 6,507 6,972 7,023
The Yorkhill NHS Trust 5,668 5,181 4,854 5,592 6,553
West Glasgow Hospitals University NHS Trust 14,519 14,916 17,011 20,603 20,960
West Lothian NHS Trust 3,565 4,026 5,398 5,830 6,587
Western General Hospitals NHS Trust 8,051 10,609 13,232 16,417 18,030

Total readmissions within three months of discharge
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Western Isles Health Board 782 866 971 999 1,065
Scotland 186,767 197,480 216,745 240,742 255,787

Mr. Chisholm

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many patients in each of the last five years were readmitted to hospital within one month of leaving in each health board area. [39205]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information requested is laid out in the table. The reason for a patient being readmitted is not necessarily related to the issues for original admission. The longer after the discharge that a patient is readmitted, the less likely it is that the reasons are connected.

Readmissions within 28 days of discharge
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Argyll and Clyde 5,404 8,490 7,249 8,279 8,378
Ayrshire and Arran 5,320 5,782 7,222 9,476 9,067
Borders 1,448 1,563 1,745 1,924 2,115
Dumfries and Galloway 2,076 2,376 2,715 3,317 3,437
Fife 4,198 4,888 5,412 5,599 6,336
Forth Valley 4,048 4,667 4,988 5,093 5,251
Grampian 8,907 9,238 9,709 10,113 10,624
Greater Glasgow 32,143 31,201 33,285 39,019 41,112
Highland 3,042 3,071 3,736 3,935 4,573
Lanarkshire 8,451 9,237 10,581 12,884 13,982
Lothian 17,188 19,478 21,958 25,545 28,133
Orkney 176 239 209 228 281
Shetland 316 314 343 477 433
Tayside 7,996 8,439 8,590 9.997 10,812
Western Isles 358 391 487 495 479
Scotland 101,071 107,374 118,229 136,068 145,013