HC Deb 10 June 2003 vol 406 cc754-5W
Mr. Jon Owen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many patients who are English residents have been treated in Welsh hospitals for each of the last five years for which records are available; and if he will list(a) the top 10 procedures carried out on such patients and (b) the numbers of each procedure carried out. [117281]

Peter Hain

I refer my hon. Friend to the following tables:

Table 1 shows the number of patients who are English residents who have been treated in Welsh hospitals for each year from 1998 to 2002.

Table 2 shows the top 10 procedures carried out on such patients and the numbers of procedures carried out over the last five years.

Number of English residents treated in Wales from 1998 to date
Admission year English patients
1998 11,251
1999 10,942
2000 10,970
2001 111,319
2002 112,476
1 Data for 2001 and 2002 is provisional and subject to amendment.
Top 10 procedures carried out on English residents treated in

Wales 1998–2002

Procedure name English patients
1. Other closed reduction of fracture of bone 1,019
2. Normal delivery 971
3. Continuous infusion of therapeutic substance 877
4. Prosthesis of lens 863
5. Diagnostic endoscopic examination of bladder 752
6. Other intravenous injection 676
7. Primary open reduction of fracture of bone and intramed 658
8. Primary open reduction of fracture of bone and extramed 541
9. Other operations on penis 450
10. Diagnostic fibreoptic endoscopic exam/upper gastrointe 424

Source:

Health Solutions Wales. Information provided to the third

character rubric.

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