Stroke and TIA statistics (FOI)

Request

A       

Could you please tell me how many people have been admitted to the Hospital after suffering a stroke or TIA in Jersey since 2017?

B

Could you please tell me how many people have suffered a TIA or stroke whilst in the hospital being treated for another illness?

C

Could you please breakdown the figures per year for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 to date?

D

From these numbers, could you please tell me how many people have died within six weeks of having a stroke or TIA?

E

If possible could you please give the people's ages?

Response

A

The number of patients admitted to Jersey General Hospital with a primary diagnosis code of stroke or TIA since 2017 are as follows:

Data Source: Hospital Patient Administration System (TrakCare, Report CDG4G)

Please note that there may be data quality issues for all years detailed above, and therefore this may provide a false representation of the actual figures. Each patient has been counted once only in each year to avoid duplication where multiple admissions occur for the same reason. Those that may have presented to the Emergency Department with a Stroke / TIA but were not subsequently admitted to an inpatient unit are also not included in the data.

B

This information is not held. Clinical coding records the main condition treated or investigated in the primary coding field and not necessarily the reason that the patient was admitted. For example, if a patient was admitted for treatment of a fracture and subsequently experienced a TIA whilst in hospital, it is highly likely

that the TIA would then be the main condition treated or investigated. Coding does not indicate the order in which a diagnosis was recorded.

C                                                       

See table in (A) and response to (B).

D

This information is not held. The Hospital Patient Administration System does not record cause of death or the time elapsed since the Stroke or TIA.  As the vast majority of these deaths are of natural causes (as opposed to traumatic haemorrhages), they are typically not reported to the Coroner. However, when reported, they are reported in live with the guidelines.

E

The table below shows a breakdown of those admitted to the Hospital for Stroke or TIA (as outlined in Table A) by age band and year. Each patient is counted only once per year to avoid duplication. Ages 50 and below have been grouped due to small numbers:

Data Source: Hospital Patient Administration System (TrakCare, Report CDG4G)

Please note that data is currently incomplete for all years detailed above, and therefore this may provide a false representation of the actual figures.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.