Speeches

Derek Twigg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospitals in Merseyside and Cheshire carry out planned surgical procedures at weekends.

Jane Ellison

The information is shown in the table below. An elective procedure is a non-urgent procedure that is planned in advance, not all elective procedures are surgical.

The following National Health Service and independent sector hospitals in Merseyside and Cheshire1 reported elective procedures at weekends.

Provider

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

BMI – The South Cheshire Private Hospital

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

East Cheshire NHS Trust

Fairfield Hospital

Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Nuffield Health, The Grosvenor Hospital, Chester

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

Spire Cheshire Hospital

Spire Liverpool Hospital

Spire Murrayfield Hospital

Spire Regency Hospital

St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

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

Notes:

  1. Merseyside and Cheshire has been interpreted as two Area Teams. This indicates the area team within which the organisation providing treatment was located. This data is limited to providers in the area teams:

Q44 – Cheshire, Warrington and the Wirral Area Team

Q48 – Merseyside Area Team