§ Mr. JackTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by district and regional health authority the location of each regional specialist unit carrying out cardiothoracic surgery; what was the number of patients treated in 1987–88 and 1988–89 in each; and what was the total annual expenditure incurred by each of these units in dealing with their annual patient load for each year.
§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomley[holding answer 6 March 1990]: The number of cases treated by specialists in cardiothoracic surgery for the years requested are shown as follows by district health authority. The hospitals named in the second column are those where a specialist cardiothoracic unit is located. Activity in a district may not be confined to the specialist unit.
Information on expenditure by individual specialities within hospitals is not collected centrally.
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Cases treated, cardiothoracic specialty, by DHA, 1987–88 and 1988–89 Region and district health authority Hospitals known to have cardiothoracic units 1987–88 1988–89 Northern RHA Newcastle Freeman Hospital 2,286 2,708 Yorkshire RHA Hull 780 1 East Yorkshire Castle Hill Hospital 1,616 1,548 Bradford 945 1,116 Leeds Western Leeds General Infirmary 557 748 Leeds Eastern Killingbeck Hospital 1,468 1,170 Trent RHA Leicestershire Groby Road Hospital 1,186 1,328 Central Nottinghamshire 0 1 Nottingham 1,249 1,139 Sheffield Northern General Hospital 1,596 1,487 East Anglian RHA Cambridge 10 1 East Suffolk 285 357 Norwich 761 814 West Norfolk and Wisbech 2 5 Huntingdon Papworth Hospital 1,645 1,721 North West Thames RHA Barnet 0 1 Hillingdon Harefield Hospital 3,143 3,404 Riverside 343 168 Parkside St. Mary's Hospital 214 300 North East Thames RHA Basildon and Thurrock 1 0 Hampstead 34 31 Bloomsbury Middlesex Hospital 754 791 City and Hackney St. Bartholomew's Hospital 717 766
Region and district health authority Hospitals known to have cardiothoracic units 1987–88 1988–89 Tower Hamlets The London Hospital 614 804 Haringey 30 0 South East Thames RHA Brighton 72 70 Eastbourne 17 26 Hastings 26 18 South East Kent 9 11 Canterbury and Thanet 11 8 Maidstone 37 38 Greenwich Brook General Hospital 1,278 1,267 West Lambeth St. Thomas's Hospital 439 411 Camberwell King's College Hospital 543 445 Lewisham and North Southwark Guy's Hospital 962 1,072 South West Thames RHA South West Surrey 414 379 Wandsworth St. Georges Hospital 768 1,007 Wessex RHA East Dorset 8 1 Southampton and South West Hampshire Southampton General Hospital 1,794 1,763 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 77 58 Oxford RHA Oxfordshire John Radcliffe Hospital 180 150 South Western RHA Bristol and Weston Bristol Royal Infirmary 689 727 Frenchay 1,183 1,014 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 590 592 Exeter 800 716 Plymouth 528 423 West Midlands RHA North Staffordshire North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary 803 779 Central Birmingham Birmingham Childrens Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital 980 767 East Birmingham 1,747 1,816 Coventry Walsgrave Hospital 1,120 1,097 Walsall 0 33 Wolverhampton 196 170 Mersey RHA Chester 0 34 Liverpool Broadgreen Hospital and Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital 2,058 1,910 South Sefton 512 534 North Western RHA Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde Victoria Hospital 680 746 Central Manchester Manchester Royal Infirmary 837 854 South Manchester Wythenshawe Hospital 3,700 3,668 Salford 55 56 Wigan 2 0 Special Health Authorities The Hospitals for Sick Children Hospital for Sick Children 984 1,269 The National Heart and Chest Hospitals Brompton Hospital and London Chest Hospital 3,392 3,460 Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's Hammersmith Hospital 355 290