Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many amputations were carried out in Leicestershire as a result of type 2 diabetes in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.
NHS Digital were able to provide the following data that details the count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) with a primary diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and a main procedure of amputation for the three clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) within Leicestershire over the past three financial years.
CCG of Treatment | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | |
03W | NHS East Leicestershire And Rutland CCG | 0 | 0 | * |
04C | NHS Leicester City CCG | 26 | 22 | 24 |
04V | NHS West Leicestershire CCG | 0 | 0 | * |
Leicestershire Total | 26 | 22 | 30 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector
An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.
To protect patient confidentiality, figures between one and five have been replaced with an asterisk. Where it was still possible to identify figures from the total, additional figures have been replaced with an asterisk.