HC Deb 23 July 1990 vol 177 cc85-6W
Mr. David Young

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the rate of ECG testing for heart disease per 1,000 of population in each of the district health authorities in the north-west region.

Mr. Dorrell

The available information is given in the table. Patients may be referred for an electrocardiogram to a district other than the one in which they reside. The rates per thousand population may therefore have little significance.

Requests for electrocardiograms1 (ECGs) and rates per thousand population, North Western region, 1988–89
District Health Authority ECG request Population estimates (000's) Requests per 1,000 population
Lancaster 11,835 131.1 90.2
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 21,743 320.0 67.9
Preston 15,413 128.1 120.4
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 13,381 264.8 50.5
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 7,308 228.3 32.0
West Lancashire 10,196 105.4 96.8
Chorley and South Ribble 740 196.8 3.8
Bolton 16,726 263.6 63.4
Bury 18,316 175.0 104.7
North Manchester 20,971 139.7 150.1
Central Manchester 22,401 122.4 183.1
South Manchester 48,424 183.8 263.4
Oldham 14,947 219.5 68.1
Rochdale 14,079 214.2 65.7
Salford 27,756 235.6 117.8
Stockport 22,894 290.9 78.7
Tameside and Glossop 15,908 247.0 64.4
Trafford 12,471 215.8 57.8
Wigan 27,289 307.6 88.7

District Health Authority ECG request Population estimates (000's) Requests per 1,000 population
Total 342,798 3,989.8 85.9
1 Request for a single diagnostic investigation on an individual, regardless of the number of ECGs involved. Requests for ambulatory ECG monitoring and exercise ECGs are included.

Source:

KH13 return.

Mid 1988 population estimates, Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys.

Mr. David Young

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the number of staff employed in ECG testing for heart disease in each district health authority in the north-west region.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

This information is not held centrally.

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