Female Genital Mutilation: Greater London

(asked on 22nd October 2014) - View Source
Questioner
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Joan Ruddock
(Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients treated at hospitals in South East London were known or suspected to have been subject to female genital mutilation in the last five years for which figures are available.

Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 27th October 2014

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table:

Active caseload2

Newly identified3

Hospital Trusts in South East London6

337

52

Source: Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence Dataset (ISB 1610)

Notes

1. The data is from the Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence Dataset (ISB 1610), a monthly return of data from acute hospital providers in England. It is an aggregated return of the incidence of FGM including women who have been previously identified and are currently being treated (for FGM related or non FGM related conditions as at the end of the month) and newly identified women within the reporting period. It has been a mandated collection from 1 September 2014. The first statistics from the Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence Dataset (ISB 1610) were published on 16 October 2014.

2. Patients identified as having a history of any FGM type prior to the reporting period and still being actively seen/treated for FGM-related conditions or any other non-related condition at the end of the month. Note: does not include those patients within NUMBER OF PATIENTS WITH FGM NEWLY IDENTIFIED IN REPORTING PERIOD (i.e. identified within this reporting period).

3. Patients first identified during the reporting period as having undergone FGM. This will include those diagnosed/identified within the provider within the month.

4. Data was submitted by trusts between the first and the tenth of October inclusive.

5. Only data that was submitted and signed off has been included.

6. 'Hospital Trusts in South East London' has been defined as: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Only three of these trusts submitted data: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

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