Completed Consultant Episodes

HC Deb 20 February 1995 vol 255 cc77-8W

Mr. Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table showing for each year since 1990(a) the number of finished consultant episodes completed and (b) the number of individual patients seen by doctors in hospitals.

Mr. Richards

Information on the number of completed consultant episodes is available only from 1991–92 onwards. The latest estimates of the number of completed consultant episodes and discharges and deaths each year are given in the following table. Information on the numbers of individual patients seen by doctors in hospitals is not available.

	Completed consultant episodes1	Discharges and deaths
1990–91	n/a	577,488
1991–92	619,600	627,700

	Completed consultant episodes1	Discharges and deaths
1992–93	660,900	662,700
1993–94	709,400	712,500

Source:

Patient episode database for Wales, Form QS1.

Note:

¹Not all hospitals return complete information to the patient episode database for Wales. The figures on completed consultant episodes will therefore slightly underestimate activity.