Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an estimate of the number of people diagnosed with Dupuytren's contracture in (a) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council area, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) England in each of the last three years.

This information is not held in the format requested. However, the following table shows count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) in English National Health Service hospitals and NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector where the primary diagnosis is related to Dupuytren's contracture for patients resident in Barnsley, South Yorkshire and England in each of the last three years.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital.

Notes:

1. This data is not a count of people, as the same person could be admitted to hospital on more than one occasion and it is possible that initial diagnosis may have taken place before a hospital admission.
2. Some patients may be diagnosed with the condition but not require a hospital visit therefore this data is likely to represent trends in the most serious cases rather than total numbers.
3. A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are usually counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes.
4. There are 20 diagnosis fields that can be populated per episode from April 2007, which contain information about a patient's illness or condition. The primary diagnosis field contains the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code for the main condition treated or investigated during the episode. The code used for this analysis is M72.0 - Palmar fascial fibromatosis [Dupuytren].