Hospital Procedures

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 21 March 2012

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Questions (645, 646, 647, 648)

Ciaran Lynch

Question:

657 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health the number of patients, by county, treated for foot ulcerations, which do not require a full or partial limb amputation, in 2010 and 2011; the number of those patients who had diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15348/12]

Ciaran Lynch

Question:

659 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health the number of patients under the age of 65 years by county treated for foot ulcerations, which did not require a full or partial limb amputation, in 2010 and 2011; the number of those patients who had diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15353/12]

Ciaran Lynch

Question:

660 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health the number of full and partial lower limb amputations that were carried out in 2010 and 2011 by county on persons in each year; the number of these patients who had diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15354/12]

Ciaran Lynch

Question:

661 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health the number of full and partial lower limb amputations that were carried out in 2010 and 2011 by county on persons under 65 years of age in each year; the number of these patients who had diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15356/12]

Written answers

Minister for Health (Deputy James Reilly)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 657 and 659 to 661, inclusive, together.

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. The Department of Health considers that the 2011 HIPE file is not sufficiently complete for reporting purposes. Discharges continue to be added to the database. The Department expects to be able to report provisional 2011 data in July of 2012.

	2010
	Number of discharges with diagnosis of foot ulcerations, and without full or partial lower limb amputation	Lower Limb Amputations
County of Residence	All Ages	All Ages, With Diabetes	Aged Under 65	Aged Under 65 & With Diabetes	All Ages	All Ages, With Diabetes	Aged Under 65	Aged Under 65 & With Diabetes
Carlow	61	29	16	11	11	7	9	7
Cavan	90	32	16	8	16	6	8	<5
Clare	114	55	25	12	27	16	9	6
Cork	360	155	84	46	86	50	33	22
Donegal	100	64	26	20	30	17	12	7
Dublin	985	303	288	105	167	89	79	43
Galway	187	54	57	16	44	18	19	10
Kerry	104	40	27	22	21	12	14	8
Kildare	146	71	59	43	26	17	10	7
Kilkenny	118	65	23	9	10	6	<5	0
Laois	37	16	9	<5	16	11	7	5
Leitrim	31	16	10	6	7	6	<5	<5
Limerick	235	93	49	32	47	31	17	12
Longford	17	6	<5	<5	7	5	<5	<5
Louth	87	28	27	14	13	<5	6	<5
Mayo	76	36	21	17	18	11	6	<5
Meath	101	51	24	18	29	14	15	5
Monaghan	64	22	15	7	12	6	<5	<5
Offaly	51	23	11	7	17	11	9	5
Roscommon	54	18	12	<5	7	<5	<5	<5
Sligo	64	26	11	<5	14	5	7	<5
Tipperary North	84	29	12	8	20	9	7	<5
Tipperary South	120	49	23	13	24	6	6	<5
Waterford	130	47	32	11	25	14	9	<5
Westmeath	56	14	15	6	15	6	<5	<5
Wexford	194	79	52	26	24	11	10	5
Wicklow	97	28	36	10	17	11	7	<5
Non-resident	6	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5	<5
Total for All Counties	3,769	1,453	985	480	751	402	315	177

Source: Hospital Inpatient Enquiry (HIPE).

Notes:

Data refer to discharges from publicly funded acute hospitals, and are based on the final 2010 HIPE file (End of December 2011).

For reasons of confidentiality, cells with between 1 and 4 cases are displayed as <5.

Data refer to the following ICD-10-AM / ACHI Diagnoses and Procedure codes:

Diabetes: E10 (Type 1 diabetes mellitus), E11 (Type 2 diabetes mellitus), E13 (Other specified diabetes mellitus), E14 (Unspecified diabetes mellitus).

Foot Ulcers: L97 (Ulcer of lower limb, not elsewhere classified), E10.73 (Type 1 diabetes mellitus with foot ulcer due to multiple causes), E11.73 (Type 2 diabetes mellitus with foot ulcer due to multiple causes), E13.73 (Other specified diabetes mellitus with foot ulcer due to multiple causes), E14.73 (Unspecified diabetes mellitus with foot ulcer due to multiple causes).

Lower Limb Amputations: Block 1484 (Amputation of pelvis or hip), Block 1533 (Amputation of ankle or foot), 44367-01 (Disarticulation at knee), 44367-02 (Amputation below knee). Note that these procedure codes include amputation of toes.