§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many stroke cases have occurred in each health authority in England in the last three years(a) in total and (b) as a per capita figure; and how many stroke cases there were per consultant in each national health service region in the last three years. [37831]
§ Jacqui SmithThe information requested for consultants is not currently available centrally while essential validation work on data at consultant level is being carried out both centrally and locally at Trust level. It is planned that consultant level information will begin to become available in the summer of 2003.
The information requested for stroke cases for the last three years has been placed in the Library.