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Written question asked by Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 17 April 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 19 April 2012. It was answered by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Diabetes

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have had amputations due to diabetes (a) in Portsmouth, (b) in Hampshire and (c) nationally in each year since 2008; and what steps he is taking to reduce the number of amputations.
Answer

Hospital episode statistics do not distinguish amputations caused by diabetes from amputations due to other causes. The following results are based on the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) and shows the prevalence of recorded amputations for patients registered in the NDA in the given year i.e. the number of patients in the NDA per 100 patients who have had one or more amputations within the reporting period. Participation in the NDA was not mandatory before April 2011, so this information is approximate. We cannot state that the amputations were caused by the patients' diabetes.

Number of registrations and prevalence of major and minor amputations in patients registered as having diabetes at practices participating in the National Diabetes Audit
Prevalence per 100
Registrations Major amputations Minor amputations
2009-10
Hampshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) 33,446 0.10 0.18
Portsmouth City Teaching PCT 8,110 0.12 0.25
National 1,929,985 0.07 0.13
2008-09
Hampshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) 32,062 0.11 0.19
Portsmouth City Teaching PCT 7,821 0.15 0.27
National 1,658,409 0.07 0.13
2007-08
Hampshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) 30,004 0.10 0.17
Portsmouth City Teaching PCT 2,706 0.15 0.26
National 1,423,669 0.07 0.13

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
104428; 543 c861-2W
Session
2010-12
Registered interest declared
Yes
Subjects
Diabetes Orthopaedics
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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