§ Mr. PatersonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many readmissions within 30 days there were to hospitals in Shropshire in(a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001. [44678]
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§ Jacqui Smith[holding answer 21 March 2002]: The available information is shown in the following table.
§ Jacqui Smith[holding answer 21 March 2002]: The Department of Health publishes statistics on emergency re-admission to hospital within 28 days of the last, previous discharge from hospital.
The figures in the table are from The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. This is the only hospital within the Shropshire Health Authority that has data that meets this statistic.
Number of discharges Number of re-admissions Percentage of re-admissions, indirectly age and sex standardised 2000–01 42,786 2,821 6.53 1999–2000 41,212 2,495 6.00 1998–99 40,293 2,360 5.85