Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
(asked on 13th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer on 2 February 2018 to Question 125524, on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, for reason that data is not available.
This question was answered on 23rd April 2018
NHS Digital holds Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data, however, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is not classifiable within the ICD10 clinical coding used in HES. Additionally, HES data only captures information on those patients who have received hospital treatment which would not apply for all patients with a diagnosis.