HC Deb 10 December 2003 vol 415 cc508-9W
Mr. Truswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when a specialist stroke service will be established in Leeds; and whether it will include(a)a rapid access neurovascular clinic, (b) an acute stroke unit, (c) a stroke rehabilitation unit and (d) community rehabilitation, including (i) voluntary support groups and (ii) intermediate care, (e) specialist community stroke teams and (f) stroke clubs. [143180]

Miss Melanie Johnson

[holding answer 9 December 2003]A specialist stroke unit will be fully established in Leeds by April 2004. It will include all the elements outlined in the question, many of which already exist in the city, with the exception of specialist community stroke teams, which will initially be on a pilot basis.

Mr. Truswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many stroke patients were treated in Leeds in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [143181]

Miss Melanie Johnson

[holding answer 9 December 2003]The information requested is shown in the table.

Admissions
1998–99 1,469
1999–2000 1,303
2000–01 1,962
2001–02 1,962
2002–03 2,468

Notes:

1. Primary Diagnosis (ICD-10 160—164) Selected Cerebrovascular Diseases ("Stroke")—Health Authority of Treatment QDH Leeds—Count of Finished In year Admission Episodes NHS Hospitals, England 1998–99 to 2002–03.

2. Admissions—admissions are defined as the first period of in patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.

3. Diagnosis—the primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002–03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital.

4. Grossing—figures are grossed for both coverage and missing/ invalid clinical data, except for 2001–02 and 2002–03, which are not yet adjusted for shortfalls.

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics (HS), Department of Health.

Mr. Truswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in Leeds died from strokes in the last five years for which figures are available. [143182]

Miss Melanie Johnson

[holding answer 9 December 2003]The information requested is shown in the table.

Deaths from strokes1, Leeds2 1998 to 20023
Number
1998 759
1999 721
2000 663
20014 721
20024 783
1 Strokes defined as deaths with an underlying cause of cerebrovascular disease. These were defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes 430–438 for the years 1998 to 2000 and, for the years 2001 and 2002, the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes 160–169.
2 Deaths of usual residents of Leeds local authority.
3 Figures are for deaths which occurred in each calendar year.
4 The introduction of ICD-10 for coding cause of death in 2001 means that data for strokes in this year and 2002 are not comparable with data for earlier years. The interpretation of international coding rules in ICD-10, compared with the rules used in ICD-9, has led to an apparent increase in the number of deaths coded to strokes of 13 per cent. for males and 9 per cent. for females. The figures should therefore be interpreted with caution. The effect of the major changes to mortality statistics in ICD-10 compared with ICD-9 were described in a report published in May 2002.*

*Office for National Statistics. Results of the ICD-10 bridge coding study, England and Wales, 1999. "Health Statistics Quarterly" 14 (2002), 75–83.

Source:

Office for National Statistics.

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