§ Mr. Jim CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the numbers of(a) heart attacks and (b) strokes in each region in each of the last five years. [75961]
§ Mr. HuttonInformation on the number of patients admitted to hospital for heart attacks and strokes for the financial years 1993–94 to 1997–98 are shown in the following tables.
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Ordinary admissions and day cases combined: number of completed first order episodes by primary diagnosis and regional office of treatment NHS hospitals, England 1996–97 and 1997–98 Heart attacks Strokes Reginal office of treatment 1996–97 1997–98 1996–97 1997–98 Northern and Yorkshire 12,119 11,237 11,533 10,887 Trent 8,333 8,577 7,979 8,828 Anglia and Oxford 6,061 7,284 7,170 8,267 North Thames 8,647 9,050 10,180 10,811 South Thames 9,799 9,401 11,605 10,991 South and West 10,556 10,174 11,385 12,206 West Midlands 9,084 9,159 9,470 9,409 North West 12,392 12,007 12,140 12,289 Not Known 0 85 0 79 England 76,991 76,974 81,462 83,767 Notes:
Heart attack ICD 10 code 121–122 used.
Stroke: ICD10 code 160–164 used.
Data for 1996–97 and 1997–98 are provisional, no adjustments have yet been made for shortfalls in data, (i.e. the data is ungrossed).
Source:
Hospital Episodes Statistics