Written answers
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Department of Health and Children
Diabetes Incidence
11:00 pm
Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a numerical county by county permanent residential breakdown of patients with a diagnosis of diabetes who had full or partial lower limb amputations here in each of the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; if she will further provide a numerical permanent residential breakdown of these patients by Health Service Executive area in each of the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14508/09]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The information as requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table.
| Lower Limb Amputations and Diabetes by HSE Area and County of Residence | |||
| HSE Area of Residence | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| Dublin Mid Leinster | 74 | 78 | 75 |
| Dublin North-East | 50 | 49 | 55 |
| South | 114 | 68 | 117 |
| West | 79 | 89 | 86 |
| Total | 317 | 284 | 333 |
| County of Residence | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| Dublin | 57 | 60 | 57 |
| Cork | 51 | 23 | 45 |
| Galway | 13 | 21 | 17 |
| Limerick | 13 | 16 | 19 |
| Kerry | 11 | 13 | 19 |
| Wexford | 17 | 9 | 13 |
| Mayo | 13 | 15 | 10 |
| Kildare | 10 | 11 | 17 |
| Waterford | 12 | 10 | 8 |
| Tipperary South | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| Clare | 6 | 9 | 14 |
| Tipperary North | 9 | 10 | 9 |
| Louth | 9 | 7 | 12 |
| Westmeath | 8 | 7 | 5 |
| Donegal | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| Laois | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Longford | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| All Other Counties | 61 | 44 | 60 |
| Total | 317 | 284 | 333 |
| Source: Hospital In-Patient Enquiry | |||
| Notes: | |||
| Data refer to discharges from publicly funded acute hospitals with a principal or secondary diagnosis of diabetes, and a procedure code for full or partial lower limb amputation. | |||
| Data for counties with less than 5 observations in any year are not shown separately above to protect confidentiality. These cases have been aggregated and are reported in the 'All Other Counties' category. | |||
| There was one case in 2005 and one case in 2007 with area of residence outside of Ireland. These cases have been excluded from the data reported above. | |||
| Private hospitals are not included. |
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