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The
number
of
patients
registered
fell
in
1998
-
99
because
of
the
change
in
the
registration
period
(
see
General
Notes
section
)
.
(B1)
General Dental Service: Selected statistics
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3.
Patients
were
first
registered
under
the
new
dental
contract
in
October
1990.
Registrations
built
up
until
1992
and
were
affected
in
subsequent
years
by
improved
checks
on
duplicates
.
(B1)
General Dental Service: Selected statistics
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Number
of
patients
registered
(3)
(
thousands
)
(B1)
General Dental Service: Selected statistics
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Paid
by
patients
(B1)
General Dental Service: Selected statistics
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The
figures
do
not
reflect
the
number
of
individual
patients
treated
,
as
one
patient
could
have
more
than
one
episode
of
care
within
the
data
year
.
(B12)
Hospital Inpatient Activity: Finished consultant episodes, by selected diagnostic group and age, year ending 31 March 1998
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Nearly
a
half
of
the
finished
consultant
episodes
for
female
patients
in
the
15
-
44
age
group
were
for
"
Pregnancy
,
Childbirth
and
the
Puerperium
"
.
(B14)
Hospital Inpatient Activity: Finished consultant episodes, all specialties by age group & sex, year ending 31 March
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Just
over
81%
of
patients
had
been
waiting
less
than
six
months
,
and
just
over
55%
had
been
waiting
less
than
three
months
.
(B17)
Inpatient Waiting Lists: Patients waiting for elective admission, September 2003, variation by specialty (ordinary admissions and day cases combined)
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Between
September
2002
and
September
2003,
the
number
of
patients
waiting
over
one
year
decreased
by
74,400.
(B17)
Inpatient Waiting Lists: Patients waiting for elective admission, September 2003, variation by specialty (ordinary admissions and day cases combined)
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The
table
shows
the
position
in
eight
specialties
.
The
specialties
shown
accounted
for
88
.
2
%
of
all
patients
waiting
for
elective
admission
at
the
end
of
June
1998.
(B17)
Inpatient Waiting Lists: Patients waiting for elective admission, September 2003, variation by specialty (ordinary admissions and day cases combined)
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Inpatient
Waiting
Lists
:
Patients
waiting
for
elective
admission
,
September
2003,
variation
by
specialty
(
ordinary
admissions
and
day
cases
combined
)
(B17)
Inpatient Waiting Lists: Patients waiting for elective admission, September 2003, variation by specialty (ordinary admissions and day cases combined)
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2.0
million
patients
were
seen
for
their
first
outpatient
appointment
in
the
quarter
ending
September
2003
following
referral
from
their
GP.
(B19)
Outpatient Waiting Times: Patients seen following GP written referral and time waited from referral to consultation - Quarter ended 30 September 2003
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Outpatient
Waiting
Times
:
Patients
seen
following
GP
written
referral
and
time
waited
from
referral
to
consultation
-
Quarter
ended
30
September
2003
(B19)
Outpatient Waiting Times: Patients seen following GP written referral and time waited from referral to consultation - Quarter ended 30 September 2003
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patients
not
admitted
within
1
month
of
a
last
minute
cancellation
(B20)
Monitoring of key standards and targets: 2001-02 Q1 to 2002-03 Q3
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patients
not
admitted
within
28
days
of
a
cancellation
on
the
day
of
surgery
(B20)
Monitoring of key standards and targets: 2001-02 Q1 to 2002-03 Q3
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Occupied
bed
days
are
aggregated
periods
of
time
in
days
of
a
patients
stay
in
a
hospital
or
community
bed
.
Community
beds
include
nursing
homes
,
residential
care
homes
or
group
homes
.
(B21)
Mental Health & Learning Disability: Hospital and community occupied bed days commissioned for people with a mental illness
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Long
stay
NHS
beds
for
elderly
patients
fell
by
3,800
since
1995
-
96
;
long
stay
beds
for
other
adults
fell
by
2,500
Some
of
these
may
now
be
recorded
as
residential
beds
.
(B23)
Mental Health & Learning Disability: Hospital beds & places in residential & nursing care homes for people with mental illness
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85.7
per
cent
of
all
prescription
items
dispensed
were
free
to
patients
in
2002.
(B4)
Pharmaceutical Services: Prescription items dispensed in the community
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New
patients
(
thousands
)
(B6)
Community Health and Prevention: Community and cross sector services
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