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Question reference: S3W-24225

Asked by: Angela Constance, MSP for Livingston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many day care patients have been admitted to St John’s Hospital since 1999, broken down by patients’ postcode area.

The number of day case admissions to St John''s Hospital is shown in the following table.

Number of Day Case Admissions to St John''s Hospital by Patients'' Postcode Area; Financial Years Ending 31 March

	Financial Year Ending 31 March
Post Code Area¹	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
AB	127	121	122	172	149	95	122	110	120
DD	77	51	40	39	30	43	32	21	37
DG	54	95	66	72	39	40	53	46	62
EH	11,255	12,007	11,818	10,162	10,445	10,062	10,997	11,463	11,475
FK	129	106	133	150	185	213	215	128	154
G	30	15	11	26	29	27	38	23	28
HS	-	1	6	11	10	7	6	2	5
IV	108	67	47	33	69	45	35	47	53
KA	3	4	3	4	3	-	1	6	-
KW	9	13	11	19	13	6	10	12	10
KY	443	342	346	416	432	368	368	319	358
ML	258	243	265	250	268	247	236	192	217
PA	18	7	14	4	11	8	8	3	7
PH	65	60	49	47	37	32	30	25	31
TD	80	84	79	83	103	132	156	123	120
ZE	3	4	2	5	5	3	4	7	6
Other²	39	18	25	26	18	19	14	20	29
Total	12,698	13,238	13,037	11,519	11,846	11,347	12,325	12,547	12,712

Source: ISD SMR01.

-Denotes 0 (zero).

Notes:

1. Postcode area is based on the first two characters of the patients'' postcode.

2. Other includes non-Scottish, missing and/or invalid postcodes.

Question reference: S3W-24223

Asked by: Angela Constance, MSP for Livingston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many medical admissions have been made to St John’s Hospital since 1999, broken down by patients’ postcode area.

The total number of inpatient and day case admissions to acute medical specialities at St John''s Hospital for elective, emergency and transfer patients is shown in the following table.

Number of Admissions to Medical Specialties at St John''s Hospital by Patients'' Postcode Area; Financial Years Ending 31 March

	Financial Year ending 31 March
Post Code Area¹	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
AB	5	1	7	7	3	4	4	2	7
DD	1	4	2	3	11	11	1	-	3
DG	2	1	1	6	3	2	-	5	-
EH	11,598	12,603	12,603	11,809	13,630	13,742	13,747	14,446	15,387
FK	31	17	36	46	26	33	39	50	53
G	13	22	17	16	31	24	25	19	28
HS	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	1	1
IV	3	2	1	1	5	-	4	4	5
KA	4	10	3	8	3	5	9	2	4
KW	1	-	2	-	-	-	2	-	1
KY	18	17	15	18	29	24	20	27	19
ML	292	298	318	323	397	375	289	260	290
PA	3	4	3	4	4	4	6	7	3
PH	2	4	2	5	4	3	8	1	4
TD	4	2	1	-	1	4	10	6	12
ZE	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Other²	75	48	52	59	70	71	70	92	72
Total	12,052	13,034	13,064	12,305	14,217	14,302	14,235	14,922	15,889

Source: ISD SMR01.

-Denotes 0 (zero).

Notes:

1. Postcode area is based on the first two characters of the patients'' postcode.

2. Other includes non-Scottish, missing and/or invalid postcodes.

Question reference: S3W-24213

Asked by: Angela Constance, MSP for Livingston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average bed occupancy rate is of hospitals in each NHS board.

Question reference: S3W-24212

Asked by: Angela Constance, MSP for Livingston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the bed occupancy rate is of each hospital.

Question reference: S3W-24215

Asked by: Angela Constance, MSP for Livingston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many accident and emergency consultations there have been in each hospital since 1999.

Question reference: S3W-24216

Asked by: Angela Constance, MSP for Livingston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many elective inpatients there have been since 1999.

Question reference: S3W-24217

Asked by: Angela Constance, MSP for Livingston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many day care patients there have been in each hospital since 1999.

Question reference: S3W-24224

Asked by: Angela Constance, MSP for Livingston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many elective inpatients to St John’s Hospital there have been since 1999, broken down by patients’ postcode area.

The number of elective inpatient admissions to St John''s Hospital is shown in the following table.

Number of Elective Inpatient Admissions to St John''s Hospital by Patients'' Postcode Area; Financial Years Ending 31 March

	Financial Year ending 31 March
Post Code Area¹	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
AB	1	2	4	2	2	1	3	6	6
DD	5	4	3	4	2	2	7	7	3
DG	24	19	27	19	22	25	24	43	45
EH	4,873	4,512	4,210	4,331	3,819	3,831	4,055	3,997	4,592
FK	22	24	42	47	49	43	48	46	43
G	6	8	6	7	3	8	12	6	16
HS	1	1	-	-	-	-	2	2	3
IV	40	42	45	47	51	43	38	27	15
KA	2	4	-	1	-	-	-	2	2
KW	10	10	14	8	6	5	6	10	4
KY	262	216	225	204	201	222	231	192	193
ML	133	93	57	95	99	89	81	69	80
PA	5	3	2	4	-	3	1	4	4
PH	2	7	11	9	13	13	8	6	8
TD	93	79	71	72	90	95	109	108	131
ZE	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	1
Other²	11	14	10	4	6	8	13	9	14
Total	5,490	5,038	4,727	4,854	4,364	4,388	4,638	4,535	5,160

Source: ISD SMR01.

-Denotes 0 (zero).

Notes:

1. Postcode area is based on the first two characters of the patients'' postcode.

2. Other includes non-Scottish, missing and/or invalid postcodes.

Question reference: S3W-24226

Asked by: Angela Constance, MSP for Livingston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were transferred from the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to St John’s Hospital on a weekly basis in the last 12 months.

The number of patients who have a hospital episode at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and are then transferred to St John''s Hospital as part of the same continuous hospital stay is presented in the following table for each week of the financial year 2007-08.

Week Number	Week Beginning¹	Number of Patients Transferred
1	1 April 2007	3
2	8 April 2007	4
3	15 April 2007	3
4	22 April 2007	6
5	29 April 2007	10
6	6 May 2007	7
7	13 May 2007	5
8	20 May 2007	6
9	27 May 2007	5
10	3 June 2007	7
11	10 June 2007	8
12	17 June 2007	5
13	24 June 2007	9
14	1 July 2007	11
15	8 July 2007	10
16	15 July 2007	9
17	22 July 2007	1
18	29 July 2007	7
19	5 August 2007	11
20	12 August 2007	2
21	19 August 2007	6
22	26 August 2007	6
23	2 September 2007	8
24	9 September 2007	8
25	16 September 2007	7
26	23 September 2007	12
27	30 September 2007	11
28	7 October 2007	3
29	14 October 2007	11
30	21 October 2007	5
31	28 October 2007	5
32	4 November 2007	9
33	11 November 2007	3
34	18 November 2007	6
35	25 November 2007	4
36	2 December 2007	4
37	9 December 2007	7
38	16 December 2007	2
39	23 December 2007	8
40	30 December 2007	4
41	6 January 2008	5
42	13 January 2008	5
43	20 January 2008	6
44	27 January 2008	7
45	3 February 2008	6
46	10 February 2008	4
47	17 February 2008	7
48	24 February 2008	5
49	2 March 2008	7
50	9 March 2008	9
51	16 March 2008	4
52	23 March 2008	8
53	30 March 2008	14

Source: ISD SMR01.

Notes:

1. The date of admission to St John''s Hospital (the transfer) has been used to assign week.

2. A patient can only be counted once in each week but may be counted more than once across all weeks.

Question reference: S3W-24214

Asked by: Angela Constance, MSP for Livingston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many medical admissions there have been in each hospital since 1999.