Hospital Admissions

HC Deb 22 May 2000 vol 350 cc346-7W

Mr. Brake

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital admissions there were in the(a) Bromley and (b) North Cumbria Health Authority area in each month for the last five years that figures are available. [122365]

Mr. Denham

The figures shown in the table are a count of admissions per month to National Health Service Hospitals in England for the years 1994–95 to 1998–99 where the patient's health authority of residence was Bromley Health Authority or North Cumbria Health Authority.

Admissions by month and health authority of residence NHS hospitals, England 1994–95 to 1998–99
	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	January	February	March
1997–98
Bromley HA	5,123	4,798	4,733	5,178	4,441	4,683	4,949	4,631	4,371	5,830	5,750	4,579
North Cumbria	5,693	5,469	5,705	5,874	5,220	5,713	5,963	5,784	5,461	5,870	5,305	5,479
1998–99
Bromley HA	4,851	4,758	5,235	5,371	4,857	5,365	5,443	5,386	4,763	5,115	4,981	5,100
North Cumbria	5,521	5,570	6,106	5,979	5,547	5,996	6,069	6,093	5,804	6,022	5,676	5,838

Note:

Data in this table has not been adjusted for shortfalls in collection (ie it is ungrossed)

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health