§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many heart bypass operations there were per million population in(a) England and (b) each strategic health authority in each year since 1997. [172700]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested is shown in the table.
Heart bypass operations have increased in number over the past six years. However, angioplasty is increasingly being used to treat patients who would have undergone bypass surgery in the past and the procedures performed in national health service hospitals in England have increased from 17,291 in 1997–98 to 34,986 in 2002–03.
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All operations (ICD–10 K40–K46) Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABGs). Count of Finished Consultant Episodes by Strategic Health Authority (SHA) of Residence. NHS Hospitals, England 1997–98 to 2002–03 SHA of Residence 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Q01 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire HA 976 1,148 1,111 1,015 1,040 1,134 Q02 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire HA 928 728 624 721 849 728 Q03 Essex HA 475 600 552 752 580 638 Q04 North West London HA 940 921 852 929 824 852 Q05 North Central London HA 397 415 410 357 417 405 Q06 North East London HA 496 575 528 698 616 591 Q07 South East London HA 586 620 506 460 500 517 Q08 South West London HA 447 446 476 501 593 566 Q09 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear HA 844 867 825 837 912 772 Q10 County Durham and Tees Valley HA 842 875 732 751 650 772 Q11 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire HA 417 874 868 878 844 1,070 Q12 West Yorkshire HA 975 1,108 916 977 1,097 998 Q13 Cumbria and Lancashire HA 1,137 1,158 1,045 1,179 1,232 1,437 Q14 Greater Manchester HA 1,050 1,160 1,185 1,301 1,395 1,515 Q15 Cheshire and Merseyside HA 996 1,018 1,084 1,104 1,137 1,421 Q16 Thames Valley HA 641 801 819 793 916 931 Q17 Hampshire and Isle of Wight HA 623 752 749 947 852 769 Q18 Kent and Medway HA 702 738 702 674 739 707 Q19 Surrey and Sussex HA 1,057 974 1,211 1,194 1,191 1,141 Q20 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire HA 829 1,012 1,117 1,048 1,073 940 Q21 South West Peninsula HA 660 795 941 987 1,061 918 Q22 Dorset and Somerset HA 586 656 592 568 502 494 Q23 South Yorkshire HA 518 523 630 632 639 769 Q24 Trent HA 652 1,044 1,039 1,088 1,025 1,124 Q25 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland HA 626 690 625 560 615 588 Q26 Shropshire and Staffordshire HA 585 633 645 801 736 825 Q27 Birmingham and The Black Country HA 1,153 1,095 1,030 1,132 983 1,226 Q28 Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire HA 669 717 682 716 643 686 U England Not Otherwise Specified — 2 — 4 2 6 England 20,807 22,945 22,496 23,604 23,663 24,540 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. Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (ie the data are ungrossed). 3. All operations count of episodes—these figures represent a count of all FCE's where the procedure was mentioned in any of the 12 (four prior to 2002–03) operation fields in a HES record. A record is only included once in each count, even if an operation is mentioned in more than one operation field of the record. Population figures are not available so only operation counts can be provided. 4. Strategic Health Authority (SHA) Data Quality—SHA data were added to historic data-years in the HES database using 2002–03 boundaries, as a one-off exercise in 2004. The quality of the data on SHA of treatment is poor in 1998–99, with over a third of all finished episodes having missing values in these years. Users of time series analysis including 1998–99 need to be aware of these issues in their interpretation of the data. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.