Pain
(asked on 20th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for pain management in each region.
The information requested is shown in the following table. These data are from hospital episode statistics and measure the time waited between decision to admit and admission to hospital. They are not the same as referral to treatment waiting times, which measure waiting times from referral to the start of consultant-led treatment by 18 treatment functions (subdivisions of consultant main specialties), but which do not include condition specific information.
The average (median) number of days waited for pain management treatment, 2012-13
Average (median) waiting time (days) | ||
Area Team of Residence | Admissions | First Outpatient Attendances |
Cheshire, Warrington And Wirral Area Team | 59 | 46 |
Durham, Darlington And Tees Area Team | 65 | 52 |
Greater Manchester Area Team | 64 | 42 |
Lancashire Area Team | 55 | 38 |
Merseyside Area Team | 58 | 50 |
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne And Wear Area Team | 44 | 49 |
North Yorkshire And Humber Area Team | 57 | 55 |
South Yorkshire And Bassetlaw Area Team | 41 | 26 |
West Yorkshire Area Team | 84 | 54 |
Arden, Herefordshire And Worcestershire Area Team | 49 | 49 |
Birmingham And The Black Country Area Team | 47 | 52 |
Derbyshire And Nottinghamshire Area Team | 47 | 29 |
East Anglia Area Team | 61 | 50 |
Essex Area Team | 56 | 55 |
Hertfordshire And The South Midlands Area Team | 84 | 68 |
Leicestershire And Lincolnshire Area Team | 63 | 54 |
Shropshire And Staffordshire Area Team | 64 | 61 |
Bath, Gloucestershire, Swindon And Wiltshire Area Team | 56 | 60 |
Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset And South Gloucestershire Area Team | 18 | 50 |
Devon, Cornwall And Isles Of Scilly Area Team | 77 | 49 |
Kent And Medway Area Team | 58 | 49 |
Surrey And Sussex Area Team | 66 | 59 |
Thames Valley Area Team | 69 | 56 |
Wessex Area Team | 65 | 48 |
London Area Team | 70 | 63 |
England | 63 | 51 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre
Notes:
- The data provided are finished admission episodes (FAEs) and outpatient first attendances where the treatment specialty was either pain management or paediatric pain management.
- An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.
- Attendances at outpatient clinics. Includes first and follow-up attendances and telephone consultations, excludes did not attends and cancellations.
- Area Team of Residence is the area team containing the patient’s normal home address. This does not necessarily reflect where the patient was treated as they may have travelled to another area for treatment.
- The treatment specialty is the specialty under which the consultant responsible for care of the patient is working, which may be different to the specialty under which the consultant is registered. Care is needed when analysing HES data by specialty, or by groups of specialties (such as "acute"). Trusts have different ways of managing specialties and attributing codes so it is better to analyse by specific diagnoses, operations or other recorded information.
- The median, rather than the mean, time waited is given as the mean can be affected by a relatively small number of records with a long time waited, however the median is less affected by this issue.