§ Mr. GallowayTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the rate of medical accidents and hospital acquired infections, injuries and fatalities in the Greater Glasgow health board area in each year since 1979. [9543]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonWith the exception of 1979, for which year comparable figures are not available centrally, (i) the number of discharges after medical accidents and (ii) the number of deaths after medical accidents are shown in the tables.
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1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care1 — — — 1 2 2 1 Drugs, medicaments and biological substances causing adverse effects in therapeutic use2 1 — 3 2 2 8 2 Total 1 — 3 3 4 10 3 1These figures include: (a) hospital acquired infections but exclude: (b) accidental overdoses of drugs and cases where the wrong drug was given in error (c) surgical and medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reactions by the patient, without mention of misadventure at the time of the procedure. 2These figures include: (a) correct drug properly administered in therapeutic or prophylactics dosage, as the cause of any adverse effect but exclude: (b) accidental overdose of drug and cases where the wrong drug was given in error (c) administration with suicidal or homicidal intent. Over the same period the number of in-patients and day cases in the Greater Glasgow health board area rose by 35 per cent. from 183,178 to 248,129.