HC Deb 12 December 2001 vol 376 cc931-4W
Mr. Alan Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS trusts provide treatment and which health authorities have purchased treatment for individual patients(a) inside and (b) outside their own area, for macular degeneration. [19416]

Jacqui Smith

In 2000–01, there were 3,317 in-patient episodes in England with a primary diagnosis concerning age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The hospital trusts that provided the treatment are given in list 1, the health authorities that purchased treatment from within their own area in list 2, and those that purchased treatment from outside their area in list 3. An appraisal of the use of photodynamic therapy in the treatment of AMD, which is being conducted by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), should be completed in July 2002 provided there are no appeals. NICE' s guidance will provide for a consistent approach to the purchasing of the treatment.

List 1—Finished consultant episodes (FCEs) for primary diagnosis "Degeneration of macula and posterior pole" (ICD10 code H35.3), by hospital trust, NHS trusts in England, 2000–01
Number
RP6 Moorfields Eye hospital 329
RL4 Royal Wolverhampton hospital 293
RQ6 Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen hospitals 153
RR8 Leeds Teaching hospitals 130
RBU Central Manchester healthcare 120
REU Burnley healthcare 115
RLZ Royal Shrewsbury hospitals 106
RTX Morecambe Bay hospitals 92
RLW City hospital 90
RJY Wigan and Leigh health 84
RHM Southampton University hospitals 79
RGU Brighton healthcare 74
REF Royal Cornwall hospitals and west Cornwall 72
RKC Warrington hospital 70
RLN City hospitals Sunderland 64
RJ5 St. Mary's hospital 63
REZ Rochdale healthcare 52
RDZ Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch 50
RVY Southport and Ormskirk hospital 48
RA5 East Gloucestershire NHS trust 47
RFK Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University 45
RA7 United Bristol healthcare 44
RE7 West Cumbria healthcare 44
RM1 Norfolk and Norwich healthcare 44
RMR Blackpool Victoria 44
RCB York health services 42
RTH Oxford Radcliffe hospital 41
RMF Preston Acute hospitals 34
RJE North Staffordshire hospital centre 33
RCX Kings Lynn and Wisbech hospitals 32
RTG Southern Derbyshire Acute hospitals 31
RDF Forest healthcare 30
RPL Worthing and Southlands hospitals 30
RWE University hospitals of Leicester 30
RGT Addenbrookes 29
RMB Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 27

List 1—Finished consultant episodes (FCEs) for primary diagnosis "Degeneration of macula and posterior pole" (ICD10 code H35.3), by hospital trust, NHS trusts in England, 2000–01
Number
RNT Stoke Mandeville hospital 27
RCC Scarborough and north-east Yorkshire 26
REM Aintree hospitals 26
RBN St. Helens and Knowsley hospital 25
RTD Newcastle upon Tyne hospitals 25
RTK Ashford and St. Peters 25
RGQ Ipswich hospital 23
RD1 Royal United hospitals Bath 22
RA9 South Devon healthcare 21
RJ1 Guy's and St. Thomas' hospital 21
RCV Central Sheffield University hospitals 19
RCJ South Tees Acute hospitals 18
RWA Hull and east Yorkshire hospitals 18
RWP Worcestershire Acute hospitals 18
RJZ King's healthcare 16
RAE Bradford Hospitals NHS trust 15
RMC Bolton hospitals 15
RJ7 St. George's healthcare 14
RTA South Durham healthcare 14
RWJ Stockport 13
RDE Essex Rivers healthcare 11
RN3 Swindon and Marlborough 11
RWF Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells 11
RAJ Southend hospital 10
RBA Taunton and Somerset NHS trust 10
RH8 Royal Devon and Exeter 10
RKB Walsgrave hospitals 10
RDU Frimley Park hospital 9
RTP Surrey and Sussex healthcare 9
RAG Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Montagu hospital 7
RBL Wirral hospital 7
REX Oldham 7
RGB Huddersfield healthcare services 7
RGN Peterborough hospitals 7
RK9 Plymouth hospitals 6
Other trusts (inc. unknown and foreign) 73
3,317

Of the 3,317 cases with this diagnosis, 1,907 (57 per cent.) were treated within the health authority of residence.

List 2—the following HAs have purchased treatment from trusts within their own area; the majority of these have also purchased treatment from outside their area:

  • QEM: Wolverhampton
  • QEF: Shropshire
  • QC4: Morecambe Bay
  • QDH: Leeds
  • QDA: Wigan and Bolton
  • QDV: Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
  • QCY: North-west Lancashire
  • QET: Norfolk
  • QAM: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove
  • QDR: North Yorkshire
  • QCV: North Cheshire
  • QC7: Sefton
  • QDW: Dorset
  • QDK: North Cumbria
  • QCT: Bury and Rochdale
  • QDY: Gloucestershire
  • QD8: Avon
  • QAN: West Sussex
  • QEH: North Staffordshire
  • QCJ: Southern Derbyshire
    • 933W
  • QD9: Birmingham
  • QCL: Leicestershire
  • QC2: Liverpool
  • QCX: East Lancashire
  • QD3: Southampton and south-west Hampshire
  • QD6: South and west Devon
  • QC5: St. Helens and Knowsley
  • QA3: Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster
  • QCF: Suffolk
  • QCE: Oxfordshire
  • QA8: Buckinghamshire
  • QAH: Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham
  • QER: Cambridge
  • QEN: Worcestershire
  • QDF: East Riding
  • QDP: Tees
  • QCP: Nottingham
  • QC3: Manchester
  • QDN: Sunderland
  • QAL: West Surrey
  • QDD: Bradford
  • QAT: Camden and Islington
  • QAX: North Essex
  • QD5: Somerset
  • QDJ: Newcastle and north Tyneside
  • QDE: County Durham
  • QC8: Stockport
  • QA5: Redbridge and Waltham Forest
  • QDX: North and east Devon
  • QD7: Wiltshire
  • QAY: South Essex
  • QAF: West Kent
  • QDT: Calderdale and Kirklees
  • QDC: Wirral
  • QC9: West Pennine
  • QCR: Sheffield
  • QC I: South Lancashire
  • QAJ: Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth
  • QCC: Northamptonshire
  • QD1: North and mid Hampshire

List 3—the following HAs have purchased treatment from outside their area:

  • QAQ: Barnet
  • QAP: Barking and Havering
  • QAR: Brent and Harrow
  • QEC: Dudley
  • QCM: Lincolnshire
  • QCN: North Nottinghamshire
  • QEP: East and north Hertfordshire
  • QCW: South Cheshire
  • QEE: Sandwell
  • QA4: Enfield and Haringey
  • QA7: Berkshire
  • QAK: East Surrey
  • QAW: East London and the City
  • QAG: Kingston and Richmond
  • QEQ: West Hertfordshire
  • QA2: Hillingdon
  • QDG: Gateshead and south Tyneside
    • 934W
  • QA6: Bedfordshire
  • QAD: Croydon
  • QEK: Walsall
  • QEJ: South Staffordshire
  • QAV: Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow
  • QC6: Salford and Trafford
  • QD2: Portsmouth and south-east Hampshire
  • QDQ: Wakefield
  • QAA: Bexley and Greenwich
  • QEL: Warwickshire
  • QEG: Solihull
  • QCH: North Derbyshire
  • QDL: South Humber
  • QAE: East Kent
  • QED: Herefordshire
  • QCQ: Rotherham
  • QCK: Doncaster.