The following tables give the number of births (birth episodes) in England the last five years and the number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) with the main or secondary procedure being the correction of deformity of the palate by age in each of the last five years in England. Count of (a) birth episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of cleft palate and (b) FCEs with a main or secondary operative procedure of correction of deformity of palate for the years 2008-09 to 2012-13 Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector: Table(a) Birthepisodes 2008-09 597 2009-10 622 2010-11 618 2011-12 623 2012-13 668 Table(b) Age 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 7- 28days 0 1 0 0 0 1- under 3months 19 30 20 24 16 3- under 6months 177 210 226 193 205 6- under 9months 341 359 .360 387 371 9months - under 1year 177 190 239 .230 229 1year 130 164 186 191 196 2years 51 58 70 63 57 3years 46 76 76 74 65 4years 62 86 68 58 70 5-9years 180 183 172 167 150 10-14years 86 100 95 71 89 15-19years 64 50 42 45 55 20years andover 85 92 63 74 64 Unknownage 0 2 0 0 1 Total 1,418 1,601 1,617 1,577 1,568 Notes: 1.A finished consultant episode (FCE) is a continuous period of admittedpatient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEsare counted against the year in which they end. Figures do notrepresent the number of different patients, as a person may have morethan one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or indifferent stays in the sameyear. 2.Number of episodes with a main or secondary procedure. The number ofepisodes where the procedure (or intervention) was recorded in any ofthe 24 (12 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and four prior to 2002-03) procedurefields in a Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) record. A record is onlyincluded once in each count even if the procedure is recorded in morethan one procedure field of the record. Note that more procedures arecarried out than episodes with a main or secondary procedure. Forexample; patients undergoing a "cataract operation' would tend to haveat least two procedures—removal of the faulty lens and thefitting of a new one—counted in a singleepisode. Source: HospitalEpisode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care InformationCentre