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Statistical press notice: Integrated Performance Measures Return – quarterly update

IPMR statistics were released today by the Department of Health: Diabetes Access to Midwifery Stroke/Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) NHS…

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IPMR statistics were released today by the Department of Health:

Diabetes

Access to Midwifery

Stroke/Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA)

NHS Health Checks

for the quarter ending30 September 2012

The main findings were:

Diabetes

  • 98.7% of patients with diabetes were offered screening for diabetic retinopathy during the previous 12 months

Access to Midwifery

  • The number of women who have seen a midwife or a maternity healthcare professional, for health and social care assessment of needs, risks and choices by 12 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy was 150,634 compared to the 174,442 women who were seen by a maternity healthcare professional at any time within this quarter.
  • Of the women who gave birth in Q2 2012-13, 95.2% had seen a maternity health professional within the first 12 weeks and 6 days of their maternity, based on the corresponding data from Q4 2011-12.

Stroke - Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA)

  • Nationally 86.1% of patients admitted with a stroke spent 90% of their time on a stroke unit.
  • For TIA nationally 74.5% of those patients with a higher risk of stroke presenting in an outpatient setting were treated within 24 hours.

NHS Health Checks

  • The number of NHS Health Checks offered during April - September was 1,185,090 with NHS Health Checks being received by 566,193 people.

The data can be viewed on the Department of Health website.

Notes for editors:

  1. This data is collected in support of indicators listed within the NHS Operating Framework
Published 15 November 2012