Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many elective admissions there were in the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
The information requested is in the table below.
NHS England publishes the number of elective general and acute admissions each month. The total number of elective general and acute admissions in 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust are shown in the table below.
Number of elective general and acute admissions, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, 2013-14 to 2015-16
Year | Number of elective admissions |
2013-14 | 36,931 |
2014-15 | 47,844 |
2015-16 | 46,196 |
Source: Hospital Activity data, NHS England
Note:
In October 2013 South London Healthcare was dissolved and one of the hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, was merged with Lewisham Healthcare Trust and formed Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. Therefore data is only directly comparable for 2014-15 and 2015-16.