HC Deb 14 January 2003 vol 397 cc535-7W
Mr. Jon Owen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients referred from a Welsh health authority in the last year for which records are available were treated in each of the 10 English hospitals that treated the highest numbers of such patients; for each

Five most common in-patient procedures
NHS trust Total Welsh resident patients treated Procedure Number of patients treated
Countess of Chester Hospital 7,729 X35 Other intravenous injection 332
R24 Normal delivery 266
H25 Diagnostic endoscopic exam/lower bowel using fibreoptic signoidoscope 172
C75 Prosthesis of lens 160
G45 Diagnostic fibreoptic endoscopic exam 149
Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals 6,819 X35 Other intravenous injection 518
M45 Diagnostic endoscopic examination of bladder 269
C71 Extracapsular extraction of lens 237
G45 Diagnostic fibreoptic endoscopic exam 209
R24 Normal delivery 199
Hereford Hospitals 2,949 C75 Prosthesis of lens 241
R24 Normal delivery 75
X35 Other intravenous injection 74
M45 Diagnostic endoscopic examination of bladder 54
W37 Total prosthetic replacement of hip joint using cement 51
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt 2,885 X29 Continuous infusion of therapeutic substance 245
W37 Total prosthetic replacement of hip joint using cement 243
W82 Therapeutic endoscopic operations on semilunar cartilage 155
W40 Total prosthetic replacement of knee joint using cement 151
W83 Therapeutic endoscopic operations on other articular cartilage 130
Royal Liverpool Children's 1,559 A54 Therapeutic spinal puncture 97
X29 Continuous infusion of therapeutic substance 96
T19 Simple excision of inguinal hernial sac 59
L91 Other vein related operations 52
G45 Diagnostic fibreoptic endoscopic exam 44
The Cardiothoracic Centre, Liverpool 1,411 K63 Contrast radiology of heart 720
K49 Transluminal balloon angioplasty of coronary artery 169
K45 Connection of thoracic artery to coronary artery 133
K26 Plastic repair of aortic valve 53
K60 Cardiac pacemaker system introduced through vein 46
Central Manchester and Manchester 1,089 K63 Contrast radiology of heart 497
K45 Connection of thoracic artery to coronary artery 143
K49 Transluminal balloon angioplasty of coronary artery 98
K57 Other therapeutic transluminal operations on heart 27
K60 Cardiac pacemaker system introduced through vein 17
Walton Centre for Neurology 904 A55 Diagnostic spinal puncture 114
A84 Neurophysiological operations 86
A08 Other biopsy of lesion of tissue of brain 70
X55 Other operations on unspecified organ 69
X29 Continuous infusion of therapeutic substance 52
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen 812 C82 Destruction of lesion of retina 61
X29 Continuous infusion of therapeutic substance 52
C79 Operations on vitreous body 40
G45 Diagnostic fibreoptic endoscopic exam 36
X33 Other blood transfusion 26

hospital, what the most common procedures carried out on such patients were; and how many such procedures were carried out. [88283]

Mr. Hutton

Data on the number of Welsh patients treated as in-patients in the 10 English national health service trusts that treated the highest number of Welsh patients in 2001–02 is shown in the table.

The five most common in-patient procedures carried out on Welsh patients in those NHS trusts are shown in the table. Data are collected on approximately 850 procedures carried out in NHS trusts.

Five most common in-patient procedures
NHS trust Total Welsh resident patients treated Procedure Number of patients treated
United Bristol Healthcare 768 C79 Operations on vitreous body 77
X35 Other intravenous injection 33
C82 Destruction of lesion of retina 31
C75 Prosthesis of lens 25
W30 Other external fixation of bone 21

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health