Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

(asked on 14th November 2016) - View Source

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.


Answered by
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Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 22nd November 2016

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.

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