§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what trend data are available to measure progress against the PSA target for a reduction in serious accidental injury relating to admission to hospital. [47300]
§ Yvette Cooper[holding answer 10 April 2002]: The White Paper 'Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation' published in 1999 set a target of a 10 per cent. reduction by 2010 against a baseline of the age standardised hospital admission rate for the financial year 1995–96.
Data to monitor the Public Service Agreement target to reduce the rate of hospital admission for serious accidental injury1 are obtained from information held in the Department's Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) system, which contains details of patients admitted to and treated in NHS hospitals in England. Data are for England.
The trend data are as follows.
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Age standardised hospital admission rate for serious accidental injury Financial year per 100,000 population 1995–96 314.4 1996–97 315.6 1997–98 310.6 1998–99 315.2 1999–20002 320.9 1Serious accidental injury is defined as an accidental injury resulting in a hospital inpatient stay exceeding three days. 2The 1999–2000 figure is provisional
§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what trend data are available to measure progress against the PSA target for a reduction in the death rate from accidents. [47301]
§ Yvette Cooper[holding answer 10 April 2002]: The White Paper 'Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation' set a target of a 20 per cent. reduction by 2010 against a baseline of the average age standardised mortality rate for the three years 1995–96–97.
Data to monitor the Public Service. Agreement target to reduce the death rate from accidents and adverse effects are obtained from mortality data published by the Office for National Statistics. Data are for England.
The trend data are as follows:
Three-year average age standardised Period mortality rate per Period 100,000 population 1995–96 to 97 16.24 1996–97 to 98 16.36 1997–98 to 99 16.39 1998–99 to 2000 16.33