Pain
Health
Written answers and statements, 4 November 2009
Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) males and (b) females have been diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome in each of the last five years.
Ann Keen (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Brentford & Isleworth, Labour)
The information requested on the number of males and females diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome in the national health service is not collected. The NHS Information Centre collects data on the number of patients admitted in England NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector with complex regional pain type II (previously known as causalgia). The information is in the following table.
| Count of finished consultant episodes( 1) where the primary or secondary diagnosis was Causalgia (G56.4) by gender, 2004-05 to 2008-09, activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector | ||
| Financial year | Male | Female |
| 2008-09 | 62 | 99 |
| 2007-08 | 38 | 87 |
| 2006-07 | 26 | 72 |
| 2005-06 | 36 | 57 |
| 2004-05 | 40 | 70 |
| (1) A finished consultant episode (FCE) is defined as a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. It should be noted that the 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. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care. | ||