Hugh Bayley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished consultant episodes there were at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in each year since 2008-09 and in each year since.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Count of Finished Consultant Episodes¹ where the provider was York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, for the years 2008-09 to 2012-13²

Notes:

¹Finished Consultant Episode (FCE)

A 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.

²Assessing growth through time (Admitted patient care)

Hospital Episode Statistics 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) and changes in National Health Service practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.

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