The below contains details of the source data used for the measures that appear on this website.

• Emergency
• Heart Disease
• Cancer
• Hip replacement
• Long term care
• Other
• What are SARs?
• Linking PCTs to Acute hospitals/trusts
• Freedom of Information data

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Emergency

What percentage of stroke admissions were given a Computerised Tomography (CT) scan within 24 hrs of admission?
Source: Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2005 survey. For year Apr 2004 to March 2005 (Unless otherwise stated)

What percentage of eligible patients received clot busting drugs within 30 minutes of their arrival at the hospital (door to needle time)?
Source: Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2005 survey. For year Apr 2004 to March 2005 (Unless otherwise stated)

What percentage of patients admitted with a broken hip (fractured neck of femur) were operated on within 48 hours?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

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Heart Disease

Of all patients who had a final diagnosis of infarction, the percentage who were prescribed a statin
Source: Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2005 survey. For year Apr 2004 to March 2005 (Unless otherwise stated)

Does the hospital use drug-eluting stents in All, Some or No cases?
Source: Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2005 survey. For year Apr 2004 to March 2005.

What was the standardised admission ratio, SAR, for stenting (procedure: percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty)?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

What was the standardised admission ratio, SAR, for angiography?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

What was the average wait in days for an angiogram (X-ray of arteries, blood vessels and the heart)?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for January to March 2006

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Cancer

What is the average wait in days for Radiotherapy?
Source: Dr Foster Breast Cancer Care Guide survey For year Apr 2004 to March 2005 (Unless otherwise stated)

What percentage of all cancer patients were treated within 62 days of GP referral?
Source: Department of Health cancer waits statistics for Q4 2005/2006 (Jan - March 2006)

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Hip replacement

Does the hospital use NICE approved prosthesis on all hip patients?
Source: Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2005 survey. For year Apr 2004 to March 2005.

What was the average wait in days for a hip replacement operation?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for January to March 2006

How many hip replacement operations were performed?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

What was the average length of stay in days for a hip replacement operation?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

What is the percentage difference between the average length of stay for a hip replacement operation and the average for all operations in England?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

What is the readmission rate for patients who have undergone hip replacement surgery?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

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Long term care

Does the hospital follow NICE guidelines in the prescription of Beta Interferon for patients with MS?
Source: Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2005 survey. For year Apr 2004 to March 2005 (Unless otherwise stated)

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Other

What is the ratio of GPs (full time equivalent, excluding retainers and registrars) to thousand of population?
Source: Dept of Health GP statistics (Sept 2005) & PCT populations (2003)

What is the standardised admission ratio, SAR, for emergency admission to hospital for treatment of asthma?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

How many emergency admissions to hospital for treatment of asthma?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

What is the standardised admission ratio, SAR, for emergency admission to hospital for treatment of diabetes?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

How many emergency admissions to hospital for treatment of diabetes?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

What is the standardised admission ratio, SAR, for emergency admission to hospital for treatment of hypertension?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

How many emergency admissions to hospital for treatment of hypertension?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

What is the standardised admission ratio, SAR, for emergency admission to hospital for treatment of pneumonia?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

How many emergency admissions to hospital for treatment of pneumonia?
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics for calendar year 2005

What was the provisional under/over spend for the PCT in £000s?
Source: Dept of Health. Year April 2005 to March 2006

What was the estimated under/over spend percentage of the PCTs turnover?
Source: Dept of Health. Year April 2005 to March 2006

Note: Information collected from 2005 Hospital Guide covers 98 per cent of Acute Trusts in the United Kingdom.

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What are SARs?

We calculated performance levels using Standardised Admissions Ratios (SARS) which measure the actual number of patients admitted for treatment, against the expected numbers. The expected numbers are worked out by looking at an area's population and needs, and are represented as 100. If a PCT or hospital's SAR is higher than 100, then the PCT is making more than the expected admissions. If it has a SAR lower than 100, then the PCT is making fewer than the expected admissions. You can also compare this against the national figure which shows the average number of admissions.

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Linking PCTs to Acute hospitals/trusts:

• Admissions data was analysed for CY 2005
• The output gave two lists by PCT, one for elective admissions, the other for emergency admissions
• The lists had for each PCT the number of admissions by Acute Hospital Trust or Mental Health Trust
• The two lists were developed to give for each PCT those trusts which provide the greater part of the AHT work done for that trust.
• For this C4 work, we used only those instances where the number of admissions was in excess of 5% of the total from that PCT, and only Acute Hospital Trusts
• The lists of trusts per PCT were then expanded to give a list of hospitals, based on the Hospital Guide 2005 set of hospitals per acute trust.
• The emergency list of hospitals was filtered to remove any that do not have a full function A&E department.
• The 'elective' list of hospitals was filtered for the Heart Disease section so that only hospitals reported to be doing angioplasty were included
• The 'elective' list of hospitals was filtered for the Hip Replacement section so that only hospitals reported to be doing hip replacements were included
• The 'elective' list of hospitals was filtered for the Cancer section so that only hospitals reported to be doing breast cancer symptomatic work were included

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Freedom of Information data

This data was independently collected by Monkey Kingdom for Channel 4 as a Freedom of Information request in March 2006. The data was then returned to the Primary Care Trusts for validation. Information was provided by 94 per cent of English PCTs surveyed.