Cardiac Diseases (Hansard, 7 December 1998)

§ Mr. Cotter
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients waiting for cardiac surgery in the last five years have died before the procedure was carried out. [61941]

§ Mr. Milburn
The information requested is not available centrally.
75W

§ Mr. Cotter
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (i) emergency and (ii) elective cardiac operations were carried out by the NHS in England in each of the last five years. [61943]

§ Mr. Hutton
Information for the last five years is shown in the table. 1997–98 is the latest year for which figures are available.

Cardiac operations Ordinary admissions and daycases combined:
Completed counts of all episodes by method of admission for
cardiac operations: NHS trusts hospitals in England
from 1993–94 to 1997–98

Year Cardiac operations Total

Emergency Elective

1993–94 23,065 89,675 112,740

1994–95 26,240 100,708 126,948

1995–96 25,776 102,376 128,152

1996–97¹ 28,714 105,515 134,229

1997–98¹ 30,370 111,988 142,358

¹ Figures for 1996–97 and 1997–98 are provisional, no adjustments have yet been made for shortfalls in data, (i.e. the data is ungrossed) OPCS 4 codes used are KOO-K71.9.

Source:
Department of Health, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES).

§ Mr. Cotter
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the amounts spent by the NHS in each of the last five years on the prevention of cardiac diseases. [61944]

§ Mr. Hutton
It is not possible to identify total spend on the prevention of cardiac diseases throughout the National Health Service. A considerable amount of preventative work is undertaken by general practitioners, primary care teams, health authorities and trusts, but the amounts spent cannot readily be split between prevention and treatment.
In addition, many health promotion activities on, for example, smoking cessation, diet and physical activity have a range of health benefits and it is difficult to apportion the cost of these between different diseases.

Cardiac operations Ordinary admissions and daycases combined: Completed counts of all episodes by method of admission for cardiac operations: NHS trusts hospitals in England from 1993–94 to 1997–98
Year	Cardiac operations	Total
	Emergency	Elective
1993–94	23,065	89,675	112,740
1994–95	26,240	100,708	126,948
1995–96	25,776	102,376	128,152
1996–97¹	28,714	105,515	134,229
1997–98¹	30,370	111,988	142,358
¹ Figures for 1996–97 and 1997–98 are provisional, no adjustments have yet been made for shortfalls in data, (i.e. the data is ungrossed) OPCS 4 codes used are KOO-K71.9.