§ Mr. MealeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS patients by region were referred for allergies treatment in the latest year for which figures are available, broken down by region. [179001]
§ Dr. LadymanThat information is not collected centrally. However, the table shows the count of finished admission episodes by strategic health authority in England with allergy as the primary cause for 2002–03.
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Primary diagnosis or external cause of admission related to an allergy condition1; count of finished admission episodes by strategic health authority (SHA) of treatment; national health service hospitals, England 2002–03 SHA of residence Total episodes Q01 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire HA 3,052 Q02 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire HA 1,400 Q03 Essex HA 1,265 Q04 North West London HA 992 Q05 North Central London HA 953 Q06 North East London HA 1,104 Q07 South East London HA 910 Q08 South West London HA 827 Q09 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear HA 1,720 Q10 County Durham and Tees Valley HA 1,692 Q11 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire HA 1,504 Q12 West Yorkshire HA 1,722 Q13 Cumbria and Lancashire HA 2,432 Q14 Greater Manchester HA 3,295 Q15 Cheshire and Merseyside ha 3,209 Q16 Thames Valley HA 1,627 Q17 Hampshire and Isle of Wight HA 2,052 Q18 Kent and Medway HA 1,384 Q19 Surrey and Sussex HA 2,830 Q20 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire HA 2,877 Q21 South West Peninsula HA 2,836 Q22 Dorset and Somerset HA 2,214 Q23 South Yorkshire HA 1,531
Primary diagnosis or external cause of admission related to an allergy condition1; count of finished admission episodes by strategic health authority (SHA) of treatment; national health service hospitals, England 2002–03 SHA of residence Total episodes Q24 Trent HA 4,017 Q25 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland HA 1,431 Q26 Shropshire and Staffordshire HA 1,021 Q27 Birmingham and the Black Country HA 2,390 Q28 Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire HA 1,085 U England—not otherwise specified 24 W Wales 162 S Scotland 56 X Foreign (including Isle of Man and Channel Islands) 100 Z Northern Ireland 10 Y Unknown 280 England NHS hospitals 54,004 1Primary (ICD-10) Diagnosis Codes T78.0 Anaphylactic shock due to adverse food reaction T78. 1 Other adverse food reactions, nec T78.2 Anaphylactic shock, unspecified T78.4 Allergy, unspecified T80.5 Anaphylactic shock due to serum T80.6 Other serum reactions T88.6 Anaphylactic shock due to adverse effect of correct drug or medicament properly administered T88.7 Unspecified adverse effect of drug and medicament J30.1 Allergic rhinitis due to pollen (hayfever) J30.2 Other seasonal allergic rhinitis J30.3 Other allergic rhinitis J30.4 Allergic rhinitis unspecified J45.0 Predominantly allergic asthma K52.2 Allergic dietetic gastroenteritis and colitis L23.Allergic contact dermatitis External cause (Secondary ICD-10) codes Y40–Y59 Drugs, medicaments and biological substances causing adverse effects in therapeutic use Notes: 1. A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. 2. The cause code is a supplementary code that indicates the nature of any external cause of injury, poisoning or other adverse effects. 3. The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002–03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital. 4. Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed). Source: Hospital episode statistics Department of Health.