Tongue-tie
(asked on 23rd January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average (a) age of babies diagnosed with ankyloglossia and (b) waiting time for treatment for ankyloglossia for babies was for each year since 2009.
The table below shows the mean and median time waited for an elective admission with a primary or secondary diagnosis of ankyloglossia, with a start age between 0 and 4, for the years from 2009-10 to 2015-16.
| Mean waiting times (Days) | ||||||
| 2009 -10 | 2010 - 11 | 2011 - 12 | 2012 - 13 | 2013 - 14 | 2014 - 15 | 2015 -16 |
0-28 days | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
29-90 days | 13 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 13 |
91-181 days | 31 | 29 | 32 | 25 | 23 | 28 | 25 |
182-364 days | 59 | 57 | 59 | 61 | 58 | 58 | 60 |
1-4 years | 72 | 72 | 75 | 75 | 75 | 78 | 79 |
All Ages (0-4 years) | 47 | 40 | 38 | 42 | 43 | 46 | 45 |
This is a count of the number of admissions, not a count of people, as one or more person may have been admitted more than once during the each financial year.
The average ages were calculated using the Hospital Episode Statistics 'Startage_Calc' field. This is a derived field which does not contain the exact age for each record, but instead uses midpoint values for patients in each age band under one year old. Therefore the calculated age values shown are only an approximation due to the limitations of the data.