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Obesity: Kent

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The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table.

Count of finished consultant episodes in which there was a primary or secondary diagnosis of obesity by primary care trust (PCT) in Kent, 2009-10
PCT	Total episodes
Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT	1,532
Medway PCT	698
West Kent PCT	1,285
Notes:
1. Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) does not hold data relating to costs and only holds obesity data for in-patient care in hospitals. Obesity-related care in a primary care setting is not included in these figures.
2. A count of finished consultant episodes is not the same as the number of patients; a person may have more than one episode of care in a given period.
3. Activity includes activity in English national health service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
4. A finished consultant episode (FCE) is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one health care 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.
5. Number of episodes in which the patient had a (named) primary or secondary diagnosis: the number of episodes where this diagnosis was recorded in any of the 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and seven prior to 2002-03), primary and secondary diagnosis fields in an HES record. Each episode is only counted once, even if the diagnosis is recorded in more than one diagnosis field of the record. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code used to identify obesity is E66.
6. Data quality: HES are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and PCTs in England and from some independent sector organisations for activity commissioned by the English NHS. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain.
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), the NHS Information Centre for health and social care.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

76082; 534 c202W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Kent Obesity

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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