Department of Health written question – answered at on 13 January 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of operations carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital in each of the last five years.
The information requested is shown in the table below:
A count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs)1 with a main procedure2 at Great Ormond Street Hospital for 2010-11 to 2014-15. | |
Year | FCEs |
2010/11 | 29,828 |
2011/12 | 32,561 |
2012/13 | 37,405 |
2013/14 | 40,542 |
2014/15 | 41,592 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre |
1. 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. 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.
2. The first recorded procedure or intervention in each episode, usually the most resource intensive procedure or intervention performed during the episode. It is appropriate to use main procedure when looking at admission details, (for example, time waited), but a more complete count of episodes with a particular procedure is obtained by looking at the main and the secondary procedures.
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