Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 17 October 2019 to Questions 271 and 282 on Out of Area Treatment: Wales, in what format information is held at hospitals near the border with Wales on Welsh patients receiving medical treatment at those hospitals.

Information on the numbers of patients from Welsh postcode areas treated in England hospitals is collected at trust level, not at individual site level. Data are also not a count of patients as a patient admitted to or attending hospital on more than one occasion would be counted as separate events.

A count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) and accident and emergencies (A&E) attendances for Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (RJR), Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (RXW), Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (RTE) and Wye Valley NHS Trust (RLQ) for patients resident in Wales for the years between 2014-15 and 2018-19 is shown in the attached table.