Obesity: Surgery
(asked on 7th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many bariatric surgical procedures were carried out in (a) the UK and (b) each local health authority in 2015.
NHS Digital has provided the number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs)[1] with a primary diagnosis[2] of obesity and a main or secondary procedure[3] of bariatric surgery, by (i) hospital provider[4] and (ii) England total for 2014-15. This information is provided in the tables below. Information for the devolved administrations is not held centrally.
Hospital provider | FCEs |
Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 220 |
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 83 |
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust | 0 |
Barts Health NHS Trust | * |
Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | * |
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 43 |
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust | 24 |
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | * |
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | * |
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 171 |
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust | 583 |
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 183 |
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 135 |
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 0 |
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 58 |
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 45 |
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | 68 |
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust | 142 |
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 324 |
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust | 65 |
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | 320 |
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 442 |
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 25 |
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust | 28 |
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 175 |
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust | * |
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust | 53 |
North Bristol NHS Trust | 75 |
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust | 0 |
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | 108 |
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 65 |
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | * |
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust | 51 |
Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | * |
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust | 132 |
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | 53 |
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | 127 |
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | 14 |
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust | 123 |
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 93 |
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust | 165 |
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 415 |
Spire Leeds Hospital | 27 |
Spire Southampton Hospital | 98 |
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 166 |
Taunton And Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | 169 |
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 0 |
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 46 |
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust | 175 |
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 160 |
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | 0 |
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust | 55 |
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust | 20 |
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust | 199 |
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust | 83 |
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 213 |
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 47 |
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 43 |
England | 6,122 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital
Notes
- A finished consultant episode (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.
- The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 diagnosis fields in the HES data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital.
- The number of episodes where the procedure (or intervention) was recorded in any of the 24 procedure fields in a HES record. A record is only included once in each count, even if the procedure is recorded in more than one procedure field of the record. Note that more procedures are carried out than episodes with a main or secondary procedure. For example, patients undergoing a ‘cataract operation’ would tend to have at least two procedures – removal of the faulty lens and the fitting of a new one – counted in a single episode.
- A provider code is a unique code that identifies an organisation acting as a health care provider (e.g. NHS Trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be taken when using these data as the counts may be lower than true figures.
Small numbers
To protect patient confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been replaced with “*” (an asterisk). Where it was still possible to identify figures from the total, additional figures have been replaced with "*".