Elevated Heart Conditions and Strokes

Original Request

Further to FOI 2074149 Please could you provide me the information for hospital admissions for elevated heart conditions and strokes from 2016 - present day split month by month. I would like this up to end end of Feb 2022. On previous requests it stated the numbers for 2020 were not up to date as there was a backlog of coding. Please can you confirm that this is now complete and if it is not please be advised I will be making a formal complaint as there is no way you can properly monitor your service without keeping basic admission data up to date and 2020 is now 2 years ago.

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Full Response Text

Manx Care Noble’s Hospital, Strang Braddan, Isle of Man IM4 4R (01624) 650 000

Our ref: 2298337 18 March 2022

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 28 February 2022 and which states:

"Further to FOI 2074149 Please could you provide me the information for hospital admissions for elevated heart conditions and strokes from 2016 - present day split month by month. I would like this up to end end of Feb 2022. On previous requests it stated the numbers for 2020 were not up to date as there was a backlog of coding. Please can you confirm that this is now complete and if it is not please be advised I will be making a formal complaint as there is no way you can properly monitor your service without keeping basic admission data up to date and 2020 is now 2 years ago."

Our response: Please see table below in relation to elevated heart conditions and strokes. With regard to the Clinical Coding, our contracted coders have commenced coding episodes from April 2021, the more recent episodes are coded. The contracted coders will be coding all episodes of care which will include episodes before April 2021. Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2016 50 33 32 34 37 17 27 29 22 20 27 32 2017 29 30 31 27 27 39 26 26 30 36 35 27 2018 42 30 29 21 35 25 21 37 25 50 23 35 2019 20 29 25 31 22 15 7 14 4 3 4 5 2020 4 4 2 4 4 1 2 2 0 0 3 2 2021 1 7 17 34 36 32 32 31 29 34 25 25 2022 28 24 Please quote the reference number 2298337 in any future communications.

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