§ The Earl of Sandwichasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many people in Lambeth, other London boroughs and elsewhere in the United Kingdom suffer from sickle cell disease; what budget has been 136WA set aside for them; and how many health and social workers are trained to cope with the resulting demand. [HL2990]
§ Lord Hunt of Kings HeathInformation on the number of people in the United Kingdom who suffer from sickle cell disease is not held centrally. It is for local health authorities to assess the need for services for patients suffering from sickle cell disease.
Information is available for health authorities in England of the number of hospital consultant episodes for sickle cell disease for 2000–01:
137WA
Hospital Episode Statistics: Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs*) where the primary diagnosis is ICD10 code D57 Sickle Cell Disorders by health authority of residence NHS hospitals in England, 2000–01 Number Hillingdon HA 24 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 223 Enfield and Haringey HA 828 Redbridge and Waltham Forest HA 353 Bedfordshire HA 58 Berkshire HA 30 Buckinghamshire HA 47 Bexley and Greenwich HA 97 Bromley HA 38 Croydon HA 209 East Kent HA 5 West Kent HA 22 Kingston and Richmond HA 11 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 2,377 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth HA 442 East Surrey HA 15 West Surrey HA 4 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove HA 11 West Sussex HA 7 Barking and Havering HA 90 Barnet HA 151 Brent and Harrow HA 197 Camden and Islington HA 636 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 369 East London and The City HA 1,172
Hospital Episode Statistics: Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs*) where the primary diagnosis is ICD10 code D57 Sickle Cell Disorders by health authority of residence NHS hospitals in England, 2000–01 Number North Essex HA 44 South Essex HA 32 South Lancashire HA 2 Liverpool HA 1 Manchester HA 163 Morecambe Bay HA 2 St Helens and Knowsley HA 1 Salford and Trafford HA 64 Stockport HA 4 Northamptonshire HA 83 Oxfordshire HA 32 Suffolk HA 41 North Derbyshire HA 1 Southern Derbyshire HA 15 Doncaster HA 1 Leicestershire HA 81 Lincolnshire HA 8 North Nottinghamshire HA 5 Nottingham HA 41 Rotherham HA 1 Sheffield HA 38 Bury and Rochdale HA 14 North Cheshire HA 1 East Lancashire HA 83 North West Lancashire HA 1 North and Mid Hampshire HA 7 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 7 Southampton and South West Hampshire 8 South and West Devon HA 16 Wiltshire HA 6 Avon HA 1,325 Birmingham HA 408 Wigan and Bolton HA 12 Wirral HA 2 Bradford HA 25 County Durham HA 2 East Riding HA 5 Gateshead and South Tyneside HA 2 Leeds HA 6 Newcastle and North Tyneside HA 4 South Humber HA 2 Sunderland HA 5 Tees HA 6 Wakefield HA 3 Calderdale and Kirklees HA 41 Gloucestershire HA 38 Coventry HA 40 Dudley HA 10 Sandwell HA 42 Shropshire HA 6 North Staffordshire HA 3 South Staffordshire HA 8 Walsall HA 26 Warwickshire HA 3 Wolverhampton HA 76 Worcestershire HA 2 East and North Hertfordshire HA 29 West Hertfordshire HA 38 Cambridge HA 42 Norfolk HA 1 Total 10,431 *A finished consultant episode is defined as a period of patient care under one consultant in one health authority. The figures do not represent the number of patients as one person may have several episodes within the year. The primary diagnosis is the first of seven diagnosis fields in the HES data set and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital.
138WAFigures in this table have not yet been adjusted ibr shortfalls in data.
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Department of Health.