HC Deb 04 May 2004 vol 420 c1470W
Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the levels of elective admissions to the NHS in Birkenhead in the past five years. [166223]

Miss Melanie Johnson

The information requested is shown in the table.

Provider of treatment—Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust—count of

finished elective (waiting list, planned and booked) admission

episodes NHS hospitals, 1998–99 to 2002–03
Finished admission episodes
1998–99 36,667
1999–2000 29,759
2000–01 32,018
2001–02 33,351
2002–03 29,664
Notes:
1. A finished admission episode is 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.
2. Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (ie the data are ungrossed).
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.