Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients aged over 90 arrived at A&E at (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Nottingham University Hospitals in a blue light ambulance in each of the last five years.
The information requested, for the last five years for which data is currently available is provided in the table below.
Counts of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances (excluding planned attendances) for patients aged over 90 years old broken down by arrival mode for selected hospital providers (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Nottingham University Hospitals for 2008-09 to 2012-13.
Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector | ||||||||
Year | Organisation | Arrival mode | ||||||
Ambulance | Other | Not Known | ||||||
2008-09 | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 1,103 | 192 | - | ||||
Nottingham University Hospitals | 1,851 | 247 | - | |||||
2009-10 | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 1,178 | 215 | 2 | ||||
Nottingham University Hospitals | 1,913 | 219 | - | |||||
2010-11 | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 1,345 | 243 | - | ||||
Nottingham University Hospitals | 1,997 | 249 | - | |||||
2011-12 | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 1,542 | 301 | - | ||||
Nottingham University Hospitals | 2,248 | 300 | - | |||||
2012-13 | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 1,652 | 307 | - | ||||
Nottingham University Hospitals | 2,651 | 337 | - | |||||
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)
Notes:
The information provided is not a count of patients as the same patient may have
been admitted more than once in a year.
HES figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures ever time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.
Note that HES include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity occurring between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.
Data for Ambulances includes air ambulance / helicopter.
2013-14 HES A&E data is published by the HSCIC on 28 January 2015.