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Written question asked by Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 28 June 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 3 July 2017. It was answered by Steve Brine (Conservative) on Thursday, 6 July 2017 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Heart Diseases: Surgery

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many paediatric congenital heart disease surgery cases there were in (a) 2000-01 and (b) 2015-16; and how many of those cases in each time period resulted in a fatality.

Answer

The National Congenital Heart Disease Audit run by the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) began collecting data in 2000-01 and at that stage the 2000-01 data was based on paediatric cases only. There are no reliable data from before that period.

In 2000-01 there were 4,105 paediatric surgical procedures and 227 deaths had occurred by 30 days after surgery.

NICOR have provided the following breakdown of 2013-16 procedures which is due to be published in full later this month.

In 2013-16 there were 32,033 procedures and 663 deaths had occurred at 30 days.

Of these, 22,930 were paediatric procedures and of that total 570 deaths had occurred at 30 days.

The Audit reports on three years’ figures due to the relatively small number of cases involved with a large number of different procedures, and in order to minimise the risk of identifying individuals.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
1783
Session
2017-19
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Death Congenital abnormalities Heart diseases Surgery
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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