Hospitals: North West

Health written question – answered am ar 14 Mawrth 2013.

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Photo of Andrew Gwynne Andrew Gwynne Shadow Minister (Health)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many admissions to hospital with an alcohol-related diagnosis via accident and emergency departments there were in (a) Tameside, (b) Stockport and (c) the North West in each of the last three years by trust area.

Photo of Anna Soubry Anna Soubry The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health

Numbers of alcohol-related admissions via accident and emergency (A&E) departments in Tameside primary care trust (PCT), Stockport PCT and North West PCTs for the years 2009-10 to 2011-12 are shown in the following table:

Alcohol-related A&E admissions by North West PCT
  2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Total
Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT 4,607 4,922 4,833 14,362
Blackburn and Darwen PCT 6,267 6,267
Blackburn with Darwen Teaching Care Trust Plus 6,517 7,192 13,709
Blackpool PCT 3,769 4,380 4,946 13,095
Bolton PCT 3,239 3,422 3,296 9,957
Bury PCT 116 125 132 372
Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT 5,473 5,716 4,877 16,065
Central Lancashire PCT 5,121 5,155 4,635 14,912
Cumbria Teaching PCT 6,438 6,616 6,973 20,027
East Lancashire Teaching PCT 0 0
Knowsley PCT 6,012 5,665 5,953 17,630
Liverpool PCT 12,960 12,783 12,824 38,567
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust 98 131 128 357
Manchester PCT 20,013 22,150 20,727 62,890
Salford PCT 4,639 4,919 5,292 14,849
Sefton PCT 2,417 2,620 2,568 7,606
Stockport PCT 3,798 4,153 3,909 11,859
Tameside and Glossop PCT 3,699 3,598 4,155 11,452
Trafford PCT 1,271 1,243 1,253 3,768
Warrington PCT 5,189 5,257 5,362 15,808
Western Cheshire PCT 2,680 2,572 2,626 7,878
Wirral PCT 5,546 5,657 5,577 16,780
North West PCTs Total 103,350 107,603 107,257 318,210
Notes: 1. The number of alcohol-related admissions is based on the methodology developed by the North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO), which uses 48 indicators for alcohol-related illnesses, determining the proportion of a wide range of diseases and injuries that can be partly attributed to alcohol as well as those that are, by definition, wholly attributable to alcohol. The application of the NWPHO methodology has recently been updated and is now available directly from HES. As such, information about episodes estimated to be alcohol related may be slightly different from previously published data. 2. Alcohol attributable fractions are not applicable to children under 16. Therefore figures for this age group relate only to wholly-attributable admissions, where the attributable fraction is one. 3. These figures are not a count of people and do not represent an actual number of admissions that were attributable to alcohol. Alcohol attributable fractions (AAF) are based on the proportion of a given diagnosis or injury that is estimated to be attributed to alcohol. Some diagnoses or injuries will, by definition, be wholly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF of one, others however will only be partly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF greater than zero but less than one. Diagnoses or injuries that are not attributable at all to alcohol will have an AAF of zero. These figures are derived by summing all AAFs for the relevant admissions and should therefore only be interpreted as an estimate of the number of admissions that can be attributed to alcohol. 4. 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, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care.

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