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WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES BY DEPUTY J.A. HILTON OF ST. HELIER
ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 12th APRIL 2016
Question
"Can the Minister confirm how many people in Jersey have been confirmed as diagnosed with pleural plaques, asbestosis and mesothelioma in the last five years?"
Answer
The question cannot be answered directly because:
- out-patient attendance diagnoses are not captured by condition, just by volume and by consultant;
- without retrieving each patient record, the date of diagnosis is not readily available so we cannot state how many have been diagnosed' in the last 5 years;
- we are not able to state how long someone has been in Jersey, just that they have at some point in the last 5 years accessed our service;
- patients may have more than one of the conditions stated above so there is a potential to double count.
However, subject to these caveats, there have been 112 patients over 5 years who have had an in-patient episode in the hospital where the primary or secondary coded diagnosis was one of the conditions set out above.