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Written Question
Urgent Treatment Centres: Northamptonshire
Thursday 12th October 2017

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on improving urgent care centres in North Northamptonshire.

Answered by Philip Dunne

Nene and Corby Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) advise that they continue to work closely with partners and stakeholders to ensure that the urgent care services provided to the people of North Northamptonshire are responsive and fit for purpose.

As part of this work, the local National Health Service is developing an integrated emergency care specification in line with the national policy direction and will continue, through the Northamptonshire Sustainability and Transformation Plan, to ensure quality urgent care services in Northamptonshire.

We understand that Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is developing an Outline Business Case for an Urgent Care Hub, and that NHS Improvement is engaging with the Trust on this.

An agreement has been reached between NHS Corby CCG and Lakeside+ Limited to extend the contract to run Corby Urgent Care Centre. The contract will be subject to an extension from 1 October 2017 that will allow it to continue up to but not beyond 31 March 2019.


Written Question
Barts Health NHS Trust: Cancer
Tuesday 8th November 2016

Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many appointments for a first cancer referral were cancelled in the Barts Health NHS Trust in (a) the last six months and (b) 2013 to 2015.

Answered by David Mowat

The information requested is not held centrally.

NHS England collects information on the number of patients referred to a consultant with suspected cancer or breast symptoms and those who subsequently started treated for cancer; and the number referred and starting treatment within the waiting times standards. However NHS England does not collect information relating to the number of cancelled appointments for cancer referrals.

The operational standard for patients with suspected cancer who are referred by their general practitioner (GP) to a consultant is that 93% of patients have a maximum two week wait.

The percentage of patients who had their first consultant appointment within two weeks of an urgent GP referral in August 2016 is shown in the table below.

Percentage of patients who had a first consultant appointment within two weeks of urgent GP referral, August 2016

Barts Health NHS Trust

97.7%

London trusts:

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

96.2%

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

91.2%

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

97.0%

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.0%

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

90.5%

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.2%

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

93.0%

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.4%

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

90.1%

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust

95.4%

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

95.2%

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

100.0%

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.3%

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

97.9%

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

90.5%

Other England trusts:

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.1%

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

98.8%

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.5%

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

95.0%

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

91.4%

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust

94.4%

Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust

99.2%

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.1%

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

98.5%

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.2%

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.1%

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

94.1%

Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

98.2%

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.0%

Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.4%

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

95.5%

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.7%

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

90.7%

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

94.7%

Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.0%

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.4%

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.1%

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

96.6%

East Cheshire NHS Trust

97.9%

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

94.8%

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

97.3%

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

94.7%

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

97.5%

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

95.6%

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

86.2%

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

83.9%

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

97.4%

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

98.3%

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust

93.1%

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

95.1%

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

98.6%

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

97.2%

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.4%

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

92.2%

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

95.7%

Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

93.2%

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

80.2%

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.5%

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

94.4%

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

96.2%

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

95.7%

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.6%

North Bristol NHS Trust

86.9%

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

98.8%

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

93.7%

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

96.6%

Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

83.6%

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.2%

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.5%

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

93.5%

Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.1%

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

99.9%

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

96.8%

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.0%

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

94.6%

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.2%

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

99.6%

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

90.6%

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

92.9%

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

94.3%

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

94.9%

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.6%

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

93.6%

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust

96.3%

Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

93.1%

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

92.9%

St Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services NHS Trust

93.9%

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

97.3%

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

93.0%

Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.5%

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.5%

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

96.9%

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust

98.9%

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

94.7%

The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

93.6%

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

88.7%

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

81.1%

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

93.5%

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

94.4%

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

92.0%

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

94.9%

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

93.8%

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

96.3%

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

89.4%

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

93.0%

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Weston Area Health NHS Trust

94.9%

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.9%

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

65.9%

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

98.9%

Wye Valley NHS Trust

89.7%

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

88.2%

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

88.7%

England

94.0%

Source: Cancer Waiting Times, NHS England


Written Question
Cancer
Tuesday 8th November 2016

Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting times are for a cancer referral in (a) Barts Health NHS Trust, (b) each hospital trust in London and (c) each hospital trust in England.

Answered by David Mowat

The information requested is not held centrally.

NHS England collects information on the number of patients referred to a consultant with suspected cancer or breast symptoms and those who subsequently started treated for cancer; and the number referred and starting treatment within the waiting times standards. However NHS England does not collect information relating to the number of cancelled appointments for cancer referrals.

The operational standard for patients with suspected cancer who are referred by their general practitioner (GP) to a consultant is that 93% of patients have a maximum two week wait.

The percentage of patients who had their first consultant appointment within two weeks of an urgent GP referral in August 2016 is shown in the table below.

Percentage of patients who had a first consultant appointment within two weeks of urgent GP referral, August 2016

Barts Health NHS Trust

97.7%

London trusts:

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

96.2%

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

91.2%

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

97.0%

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.0%

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

90.5%

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.2%

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

93.0%

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.4%

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

90.1%

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust

95.4%

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

95.2%

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

100.0%

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.3%

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

97.9%

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

90.5%

Other England trusts:

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.1%

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

98.8%

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.5%

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

95.0%

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

91.4%

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust

94.4%

Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust

99.2%

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.1%

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

98.5%

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.2%

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.1%

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

94.1%

Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

98.2%

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.0%

Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.4%

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

95.5%

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.7%

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

90.7%

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

94.7%

Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.0%

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.4%

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.1%

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

96.6%

East Cheshire NHS Trust

97.9%

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

94.8%

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

97.3%

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

94.7%

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

97.5%

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

95.6%

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

86.2%

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

83.9%

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

97.4%

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

98.3%

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust

93.1%

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

95.1%

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

98.6%

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

97.2%

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.4%

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

92.2%

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

95.7%

Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

93.2%

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

80.2%

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.5%

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

94.4%

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

96.2%

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

95.7%

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.6%

North Bristol NHS Trust

86.9%

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

98.8%

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

93.7%

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

96.6%

Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

83.6%

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.2%

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.5%

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

93.5%

Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.1%

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

99.9%

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

96.8%

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.0%

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

94.6%

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.2%

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

99.6%

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

90.6%

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

92.9%

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

94.3%

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

94.9%

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.6%

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

93.6%

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust

96.3%

Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

93.1%

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

92.9%

St Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services NHS Trust

93.9%

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

97.3%

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

93.0%

Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.5%

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.5%

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

96.9%

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust

98.9%

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

94.7%

The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

93.6%

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

88.7%

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

81.1%

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

93.5%

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

94.4%

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

92.0%

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

94.9%

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

93.8%

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

96.3%

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

89.4%

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

93.0%

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Weston Area Health NHS Trust

94.9%

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.9%

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

65.9%

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

98.9%

Wye Valley NHS Trust

89.7%

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

88.2%

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

88.7%

England

94.0%

Source: Cancer Waiting Times, NHS England


Written Question
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Tuesday 11th October 2016

Asked by: Philip Hollobone (Conservative - Kettering)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patient episodes there were within the Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust in (a) 2005, (b) 2010 and (c) 2015.

Answered by David Mowat

In 2004-05, there were 71,300 admitted patient finished consultant episodes at Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, compared to 82,267 in 2009-10 and 90,659 in 2014-15.

The number of outpatient attendances has also risen, with 168,412 in 2004-05; 217,735 in 2009-10; and 274,614 in 2014-15.

In 2004-05, there were 68,650 Accident & Emergency attendances, compared to 85,971 in 2009-10. This number fell in 2014-15 to 76,452 attendances.


Written Question
NHS Improvement
Monday 6th June 2016

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2016 to Question 37441, what the name is of each of the 27 hospitals supported by the Emergency Care Intensive Support Team.

Answered by Ben Gummer

The following 27 health systems and the hospitals within these are supported by the Emergency Care Intensive Support Team via the Emergency Care Improvement Programme:

- Stoke & Staffordshire: County Hospital; Royal Stoke University Hospital

- Shropshire: Royal Shrewsbury Hospital; Princess Royal Hospital

- North Northamptonshire & Corby: Kettering General Hospital

- Coventry & Rugby: University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire

- Worcestershire: Worcestershire Royal Hospital; Alexandra Hospital

- Wirral: Arrowe Park

- Lincolnshire: Lincoln County Hospital; Grantham District Hospital; Pilgrim Hospital

- Hull & East Riding: Hull Royal Hospital; Castle Hill Hospital

- North Cumbria: Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle; West Cumberland Infirmary

- York & Scarborough: York Hospital; Scarborough Hospital

- Wakefield & North Kirklees: Pinderfields Hospital; Pontefract Hospital; Dewsbury and District Hospital

- Kernow: Royal Cornwall Hospital

- Kingston: Kingston Hospital

- Bromley Lambeth & Southwark: King’s College Hospital - Denmark Hill; King’s College Hospital – Princess Grace

- Wandsworth Sutton & Merton: St George’s Hospital; Queen Mary’s Roehampton

- Cambridge & Ely: Addenbrooke’s Hospital

- Portsmouth & South East Hampshire: Queen Alexandra Hospital

- Western Devon: Plymouth Dereford Hospital

- North Somerset & Medway: Weston General Hospital

- Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest & Newham: Royal London Hospital; Whipps Cross Hospital

- Brent & Harrow: Northwick Park Hospital

- Mid Essex: Broomfield Hospital

- Herts Valley & West Herts: Watford General Hospital

- North East Essex: Colchester General Hospital

- Brighton & Hove: Royal Sussex County Hospital

- East Kent: Kent and Canterbury Hospital; William Harvey Hospital; Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital

- Medway: Medway Hospital


Written Question
NHS: Finance
Monday 23rd May 2016

Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each (a) NHS trust and (b) foundation trust has paid to his Department in repayment of loans of £25,000 or more issued by his Department in each of the last three years.

Answered by Alistair Burt

The Department has received loan repayments, of £25,000 or more, for the last three financial years from National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts as set out in the two tables below:

NHS Trust Loan Repayments

2013/14 £

2014/15 £

2015/16 £

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

-

-

£4,300,000

Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust

£5,448,000

£5,248,000

£95,148,000

Bradford District Care NHS Trust

£94,000

£94,000

£45,155,000

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

£1,978,000

£1,722,000

£9,423,000

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

£1,830,000

£1,830,000

£2,110,000

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

-

-

£12,483,000

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

£500,000

-

£12,000,000

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

-

-

£12,801,000

Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

£156,000

£456,000

£576,000

Ealing Hospital NHS Trust

£2,202,000

£20,142,000

£4,575,218

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

-

-

£31,697,900

East Cheshire NHS Trust

-

-

£17,396,000

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

£3,348,000

-

£17,324,000

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

£1,332,000

£1,332,000

£2,902,000

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

£460,000

£460,000

£36,599,151

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

-

-

£21,300,000

Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust

£1,596,000

£3,036,000

£1,416,000

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

£700,000

£700,000

£23,400,000

Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust

£1,500,000

£1,500,000

£2,390,000

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

£116,000

£116,000

£15,116,000

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

-

-

£225,481

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

£470,000

£470,000

£17,689,000

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership NHS Trust

-

-

£12,702,080

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

£300,000

£150,000

£3,000,000

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

£856,000

£856,000

£27,256,000

Lewisham and Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust

-

-

£16,926,721

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

£2,200,000

£2,200,000

£22,200,000

London North West Helthcare NHS Trust

£0

£40,000

£8,988,418

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

£600,000

£600,000

£16,300,000

Mersey Care NHS Trust

£3,356,000

£3,356,000

£30,961,583

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

£498,000

£498,000

£498,000

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

£1,244,000

£4,343,000

£0

NHS Direct NHS Trust

£649,000

£432,000

£0

North Bristol NHS Trust

£682,000

£902,000

£1,122,000

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

£0

£14,298,000

£0

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

£1,420,000

£1,420,000

£29,210,000

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

£600,000

£500,000

£400,000

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

£3,234,000

£3,234,000

£3,234,000

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

£1,260,000

£1,260,000

£15,260,000

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

-

-

£31,403,000

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

-

-

£32,863,800

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

£2,174,000

£2,174,000

£14,674,000

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

£4,172,000

£4,172,000

£27,472,000

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

£2,135,000

£2,588,000

£2,588,000

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals University NHS Trust

£2,409,000

£2,780,000

£37,488,000

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

£1,752,000

£1,752,000

£1,752,000

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust

£1,252,000

£1,252,000

£1,252,000

South London Healthcare NHS Trust

£334,000

£334,000

£578,420

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

£1,674,000

£1,671,000

£31,841,900

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

£1,000,000

£1,000,000

£30,825,000

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

£3,782,000

£4,104,422

£13,175,661

Sussex Community NHS Trust

£2,000,000

£2,000,000

£1,000,000

The Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

£4,342,000

£3,642,000

£1,142,000

The Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

£1,300,000

£1,300,000

£850,000

The Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

-

-

£14,311,000

The Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust

£1,600,000

£1,600,000

£2,400,000

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

£176,000

£176,000

£176,000

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

£1,226,000

£1,226,000

£1,226,000

Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

£764,000

£764,000

£764,000

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

£522,000

£522,000

£4,538,000

£71,243,000

£104,252,422

£826,406,333

NHS Foundation Trust Loan Repayments

2013/14 £

2014/15 £

2015/16 £

5 Borough Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£573,800

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£1,811,200

£1,811,200

£2,117,200

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

£504,960

£504,960

£504,960

Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£2,081,004

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£4,152,220

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£1,095,040

£1,095,040

£12,435,920

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

£2,182,560

£2,182,560

£2,182,560

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£2,828,200

£3,171,400

£4,432,554

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

£1,367,889

£1,367,889

£3,117,889

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£1,000,000

£1,000,000

£1,000,000

Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£14,845,000

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

£5,631,600

-

-

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£3,548,420

£3,548,420

£7,398,420

Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£8,112,000

£8,112,000

£5,112,000

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£3,625,000

£6,125,000

£44,440,400

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£1,000,776

£1,000,776

£1,000,776

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

£1,617,200

£1,617,200

£3,072,900

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

£250,000

£250,000

£250,000

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

£0

£594,000

£15,118,000

Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£1,693,150

£3,436,300

£4,282,200

Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£1,590,000

£1,590,000

£19,994,000

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£426,440

£1,068,160

£2,434,880

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£700,000

-

-

Dorset Health Care University NHS Foundation Trust

£180,573

£1,443,276

-

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

£0

£1,177,300

£1,355,800

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£2,634,533

£2,634,533

£2,634,533

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£2,055,000

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

£625,000

£2,952,500

£6,519,000

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£1,300,000

£1,931,200

£1,281,200

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

£0

£544,880

£544,880

Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£1,444,000

£11,484,000

-

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

-

£232,383

£529,866

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£188,996

£188,996

£234,187

Humber NHS Foundation Trust

£254,500

£254,500

£254,500

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£1,480,000

£1,480,000

£18,251,000

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£1,011,600

£1,011,600

£87,022,600

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust

£176,000

£352,000

£2,571,460

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£856,440

£2,657,440

£20,697,440

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£667,200

£667,200

£667,200

Liverpool Womens Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£305,800

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

£228,480

£1,127,623

£22,490,863

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£275,778

Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£444,800

£444,800

£15,436,800

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£4,729,920

£830,000

£1,823,200

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

£1,056,464

£1,056,464

£1,056,464

North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£2,214,596

£2,214,596

£2,614,196

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£1,684,077

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

£2,766,000

£4,470,000

£4,590,000

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£2,120,000

£2,624,000

£2,624,000

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

£1,337,560

£1,337,560

£1,337,560

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£1,404,000

£1,404,000

£1,404,000

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

£1,250,000

£1,250,000

£1,250,000

Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£17,500,000

Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£439,240

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£388,850

£777,700

£777,700

Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£50,000

-

-

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

£3,508,800

£363,217

£363,217

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

£3,668,800

£3,668,800

£3,668,800

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust

£1,270,400

£1,270,400

£1,270,400

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£1,578,000

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

-

£441,000

£882,000

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Foundation Trust

£990,000

£990,000

£990,000

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

£0

£512,000

£512,000

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

£1,250,000

£625,000

-

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

£118,493

£236,986

£1,301,986

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£1,445,180

£1,445,180

£1,445,180

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£38,183,000

Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£444,400

£544,400

£422,400

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

£987,000

£488,000

£1,738,000

South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£1,243,250

£3,318,635

£4,415,510

South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£666,000

£1,332,000

£1,332,000

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£1,988,640

£3,016,680

£13,996,200

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

£872,000

£428,000

£428,000

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£37,691,065

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

£1,071,400

£1,071,400

£1,071,400

Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£10,971,000

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

£648,000

£648,000

£648,000

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£3,000,000

The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£911,400

£911,400

£911,400

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£390,000

£390,000

£1,390,000

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£3,500,000

£3,500,000

£3,500,000

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

£1,156,800

£1,156,800

£19,052,400

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

£2,625,000

£2,625,000

£2,625,000

The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£550,800

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£2,414,500

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

£236,640

£683,840

£1,131,040

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£2,801,285

£2,801,285

£28,101,285

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

£1,564,800

£1,564,800

£1,564,800

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

£4,425,500

£4,925,000

£4,925,000

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

£260,370

£926,370

£5,834,370

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

-

-

£23,400,000

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£450,000

-

-

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

£500,000

-

£65,100

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£3,820,000

£4,571,611

£2,157,611

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£265,200

£640,200

£1,015,200

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£493,827

£1,081,856

£1,247,326

£111,367,131

£131,201,315

£596,569,016


Written Question
NHS: Finance
Monday 23rd May 2016

Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each (a) NHS trust and (b) foundation trust has paid to his Department in repayment of public dividend capital of £25,000 or more provided by his Department in each of the last three years.

Answered by Alistair Burt

Repayments of public dividend capital (PDC), of £25,000 or more, made by National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts to the Department in each of the last three financial years are shown in the tables below.

Table A – NHS Trust PDC repayments

2013/14 £000

2014/15 £000

2015/16 £000

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

33,700

37,970

Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

8,000

4,000

Barts Health NHS Trust

60,000

15,000

Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust

14,200

300

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust

850

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

10,000

23,000

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

18,677

21,336

Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

785

Ealing Hospital NHS Trust

4,000

5,000

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

5,100

6,000

East Cheshire NHS Trust

200

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

3,700

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

1,500

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

29,000

16,500

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

6,000

2,600

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

2,500

10,000

Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust

1,500

Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust

8,000

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

1,000

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

3,400

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

4,000

750

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

607

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

2,825

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

29,800

1,000

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

50

Lewisham and Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust

10,500

16,942

6,696

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

4,500

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

16,000

Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust

300

Mersey Care NHS Trust

6,000

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

6,000

20,000

3,809

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

24,000

20,500

5,000

North Bristol NHS Trust

8,500

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

31,700

17,000

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

350

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust

20,853

25,420

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

10,500

Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

2,300

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

2,000

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

2,500

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

9,200

3,300

6,000

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

6,200

6,500

1,347

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

1,500

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals University NHS Trust

25,000

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

500

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust

7,500

16,600

2,500

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

3,800

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

350

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

100

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

5,500

2,000

3,000

Sussex Community NHS Trust

3,000

1,000

The Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust

785

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

8,341

18,881

3,000

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

3,200

The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust

2,500

The Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

900

The Solent NHS Trust

5,000

The Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust

400

The Wirral Community NHS Trust

397

University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust

377

46,000

University Hospitals of North Midlands

11,700

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

14,000

14,000

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

2,500

2,400

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

28,000

West London Mental Health NHS Trust

600

West Middlesex University NHS Trust

2,000

4,950

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

8,500

5,600

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

34,500

Wye Valley NHS Trust

7,800

12,700

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

3,653

310,148

562,399

129,254

Table B – NHS Foundation Trust PDC repayments

2013/14 £000

2014/15 £000

2015/16 £000

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

16,880

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

2,800

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

450

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

4,100

Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

3,272

Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

500

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

500

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

30

159

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

2,400

Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust

800

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

100

Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

200

Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

2,100

3,700

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

600

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

700

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

3,000

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

200

Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children NHS Foundation Trust

407

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

8,944

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

2,000

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

18,600

Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

4,990

Humber NHS Foundation Trust

600

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

1,500

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

7,400

6,800

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

9,400

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

26

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

25,250

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

21,545

Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

20,436

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

6,900

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

295

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

700

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

1,800

6,000

Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

27,419

800

Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases NHS Foundation Trust

1,000

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

1,000

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

400

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

24,174

South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

1,400

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

1,914

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

14,400

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

4,600

Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

9,007

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

500

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

11,800

1,000

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

3,400

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

2,300

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

700

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

2,500

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

59

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

18,000

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

2,500

1,970

209,632

103,355

.


Written Question
Kettering Hospital
Monday 8th February 2016

Asked by: Philip Hollobone (Conservative - Kettering)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what stage the funding application by Kettering General Hospital for a new on-site urgent care hub has reached; and if he will accelerate the approval process for that application.

Answered by Alistair Burt

Monitor has confirmed that it has now received the Kettering General Hospital Trust’s Outline Business Case seeking approval for consultancy spend to progress the development of an Urgent Care Hub.


Written Question
Accident and Emergency Departments: Northamptonshire
Tuesday 2nd June 2015

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve A&E provision in North Northamptonshire.

Answered by Ben Gummer

The provision of accident & emergency (A&E) services is a matter for the local National Health Service. We are aware of the proposals being developed locally for an Urgent Care Hub at Kettering General Hospital to address pressures faced by the Trust’s A&E service and are encouraged by the innovative thinking of the local commissioners and close working with local people and their representatives.


Written Question
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Monday 23rd February 2015

Asked by: Philip Hollobone (Conservative - Kettering)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations were performed by the Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust in each year since 2010.

Answered by Jane Ellison

Information is not available in the format requested.

Information on the number of Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs) when any procedure took place in Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for the years 2010/11 to 2013/14 is shown in the table below:

Year

FCEs

2010-11

49,638

2011-12

52,651

2012-13

52,564

2013-14

53,869

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)

Notes:

  1. The above information is not a count of people but a count of FCEs, as the same person may have had more than one episode of care within the same time period.
  2. An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end.
  3. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.
  4. Data includes the number of episodes where the procedure (or intervention) was recorded in any of the 24 (12 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and 4 prior to 2002-03) procedure fields in a HES record.
  5. A record is only included once in each count, even if the procedure is recorded in more than one procedure field of the record. Note that more procedures are carried out than episodes with a main or secondary procedure. For example, patients undergoing a ‘cataract operation’ would tend to have at least two procedures – removal of the faulty lens and the fitting of a new one – counted in a single episode.
  6. A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (e.g. National Health Service trust or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of data-flows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.
  7. HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures which may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and so no longer include in admitted patient HES data. Conversely, apparent increases in activity may be due to improved recording of diagnosis or procedure information.
  8. Note that HES include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity ending between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.