Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 11 Apr 2001

Vol. 534 No. 4

Written Answers - Hospital Admissions.

Dan Neville

Question:

127 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 119 of 8 March 2001, he will state the number of readmissions to the same hospital within one week by health board for 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 whose ages ranged between 50 to 59, 60 to 69, 70 to 79 and those aged over 80; the number who were medical card holders; the number who were covered by health insurance; and the number who were male and female respectively. [10835/01]

Minister for Health and Children (Mr. Martin)

The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following table. The figures are derived from HIPE – hospital in-patient enquiry – data which gives details of activity in publicly funded acute general hospitals in the State. HIPE data is only able to record re-admissions to the same hospital as it is not possible to trace patients from hospital to hospital. The figures includes all in-patient readmissions, re-admissions for the same condition, for an unrelated condition and planned readmissions, and excludes day cases. Figures are provided for each of the years 1997 to 2000 inclusive. Please note that updated figures for 1998 and 2000 are being used and data for 2000 is not yet complete.

Health board refers to the patient's place of residence. Non-residents are not included in the table. Data on health insurance are not available.

Table 1

Re-admissions by Age and Health Board for 1997

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
	3,434	768	788	950	559	1,962	1,768	1,158
50-59 yrs	507	221	147	183	108	266	322	231
60-69 yrs	630	274	200	317	180	367	565	366
70-79 yrs	667	279	249	323	223	436	386	386
80+	358	156	140	159	134	219	204	225
Total	5,596	1,698	1,524	1,932	1,204	3,250	3,245	2,366	20,815

Table 2

Re-admissions by Age and Health Board for 1998

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
	3,559	670	718	1,123	571	2,112	1,731	1,195
50-59 yrs	445	195	143	210	153	321	396	249
60-69 yrs	544	225	183	308	189	358	517	343
70-79 yrs	553	296	275	412	256	409	519	453
80+	333	153	159	196	137	171	182	292
Total	5,434	1,539	1,478	2,249	1,306	3,371	3,345	2,532	21,254

Table 3

Re-admissions by Age and Health Board for 1999

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
	4,909	1,144	907	1,265	943	2,179	1,839	1,573
50-59 yrs	535	186	140	231	140	256	402	270
60-69 yrs	535	241	179	286	159	385	513	367
70-79 yrs	645	279	290	377	217	418	476	470
80+	367	146	125	215	109	224	203	296
Total	6,991	2,014	1,641	2,374	1,568	3,462	3,433	2,976	24,459

Table 4

Re-admissions by Age and Health Board for 2000

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
	4,894	964	1,037	1,610	883	2,032	1,354	1,475
50-59yrs	541	168	155	272	195	258	282	252
60-69yrs	580	227	193	314	184	328	406	338
70-79yrs	611	266	249	392	244	347	389	451
80+	344	143	160	215	140	157	179	315
Total	6,970	1,768	1,794	2,803	1,646	3,122	2,610	2,831	23,544

Table 5

Re-admissions by Medical Card Status and Health Board for 1997

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
Medical card holder	2,424	929	875	1,050	765	1,694	1,452	1,573
Non MC holder	3,060	767	648	879	439	1,537	1,747	789
Unknown	112	2	1	3	0	19	46	4
Total	5,596	1,698	1,524	1,932	1,204	3,250	3,245	2,366	20,815

Table 6

Re-admissions by Medical Card Status and Health Board for 1998

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
Medical card holder	2,233	857	823	1,304	827	1,714	1,427	1,701
Non MC holder	3,117	672	650	934	478	1,649	1,738	826
Unknown	84	10	5	11	1	8	180	5
Total	5,434	1,539	1,478	2,249	1,306	3,371	3,345	2,532	21,254

Table 7

Re-admissions by Medical Card Status and Health Board for 1999

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
Medical card holder	2,647	974	906	1,260	839	1,672	1,292	2,078
Non MC holder	3,906	1,028	721	1,086	95	1,767	2,030	840
Unknown	438	12	14	28	634	23	111	58
Total	6,991	2,014	1,641	2,374	1,568	3,462	3,433	2,976	24,459

Table 8

Re-admissions by Medical Card Status and Health Board for 2000

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
Medical card holder	2,519	789	951	1,355	893	1,424	987	1,955
Non MC holder	3,946	958	837	1,409	83	1,679	1,498	820
Unknown	505	21	6	39	670	19	125	56
Total	6,970	1,768	1,794	2,803	1,646	3,122	2,610	2,831	23,544

Table 9

Re-admissions by Gender and Health Board for 1997

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
Male	3,171	803	837	999	609	1,865	1,825	1,274
Female	2,425	895	687	933	595	1,385	1,420	1,092
Total	5,596	1,698	1,524	1,932	1,204	3,250	3,245	2,366	20,815

Table 10

Re-admissions by Gender and Health Board for 1998

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
Male	3,294	730	736	1,182	666	2,011	1,826	1,275
Female	2,140	809	742	1,067	640	1,360	1,519	1,257
Total	5,434	1,539	1,478	2,249	1,306	3,371	3,345	2,532	21,254

Table 11

Re-admissions by Gender and Health Board for 1999

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
Male	4,669	1,196	922	1,417	898	2,215	1,843	1,706
Female	2,322	818	719	957	670	1,247	1,590	1,270
Total	6,991	2,014	1,641	2,374	1,568	3,462	3,433	2,976	24,459

Table 12

Re-admissions by Gender and Health Board for 2000

	EHB	MWHB	MHB	NEHB	NWHB	SEHB	SHB	WHB
Male	4,736	968	1,021	1,765	937	2,035	1,501	1,608
Female	2,234	800	773	1,038	709	1,087	1,109	1,223
Total	6,970	1,768	1,794	2,803	1,646	3,122	2,610	2,831	23,544

Source of data for above tables is HIPE.