To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were re-admitted to Ayr Hospital or Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock suffering from a similar complaint to their first admission in: (a) 1994; (b) 1995; (c) 1996; (d) 1997, and (e) 1998.

The information available is provided in the table.

Proportion of patients¹ re-admitted to Crosshouse Hospital or Ayr Hospital within 28 days of discharge of first admission and to the same specialty, April 1994 to March 1998

¹ Patients are counted a maximum of once for each hospital in each year

Notes:

1. A re-admission is defined as an emergency admission to hospital (in a different episode of care) within 28 days of their first admission and to the same specialty.

2. The hospital for the re-admission can be either Crosshouse or Ayr irrespective of which of these hospitals had the first admission.

3. Numbers are assigned to the hospital of first admission.

Source: ISD Medical Record Linkage