§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people in East Lancashire who will require dialysis in each year up to 2005. [3841]
§ Jacqui SmithI apologise to my hon. Friend for the delay in responding to this question. I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State gave my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble) on 5 March 2002,Official Report, column 192W.
The estimated number of patients from East Lancashire requiring dialysis in the years up to 2005 are as follows:
Haemodialysis Peritoneal dialysis Total 2001 117 64 181 2002 123 67 190 2003 128 70 198 2004 135 73 208 2005 138 75 213 Note:
The calculations were made using the Hennel, Wood and Mallick model and were based on the 1999 stock of renal patients and an annual uptake rate of 92 new patients per million. This is an uptake rate of 80 per million adjusted for the age distribution and ethnicity in the population of East Lancashire.