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Table 4 Patient's residence – area postcodes (all selected hospitals) and – district postcodes after removing out-of-area cases (NSRI, Stoke on Trent 1997–2004)

From: A proposed approach in defining population-based rates of major injury from a trauma registry dataset: Delineation of hospital catchment areas (I)

 

Patient postcode-all hospitals

 

Patient postcode – NSRI***

Hospital (s)/area postcode, time period

Hospital area No (%)

Out-of-hospital area No (%)

Not known No (%)

Total No (100.0%)

 

ST district postcode

Total (area + not known)

       

No

(%)

North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary/ST, 1997–2004

3886

(75.8)

1012

(19.8)

227

(4.4)

5125

ST5

613

14.9

ST6

533

13.0

     
      

ST3

533

13.0

Nottingham Univ. H/NG, 1997–2004

4661

(73.1)

1425

(22.3)

294

(4.6)

6380

 

ST4

456

11.1

      

ST2

312

7.6

The Ipswich H/IP, 1996–2004

2344

(86.4)

287

(10.6)

82

(3.0)

2713

 

ST7

288

7.0

      

ST1

289

7.0

Leicester Royal Infirmary/LE, 1996–2004

3528

(85.5)

559

(13.5)

40

(1.0)

4127

 

ST10

211

5.1

      

ST13

182

4.4

      

ST8

125

3.0

Colchester General H/CO, 1996–2004

1296

(78.7)

256

(15.6)

94

(5.7)

1646

 

ST11

72

1.8

      

ST9

66

1.6

Northampton General H/NN, 1996–2004

1395

(85.2)

221

(13.5)

21

(1.3)

1637

 

ST15

42

1.0

      

ST14

33

0.8

      

ST16

28

0.7

West Cumberland H/CA, 1996–2004

550

(82.1)

86

(12.8)

34

(5.1)

670

 

ST12

24

0.6

      

ST17

21

0.5

Scunthorpe General H/DN, 1998–2004

1031

(89.2)

79

(6.8)

46

(4.0)

1156

 

ST18

17

0.4

      

ST21

13

0.3

Huddersfield Royal Infirmary/HD, 1999–2004

592

(80.4)

95

(12.9)

49

(6.7)

736

 

ST19

8

0.2

      

ST20

5

0.1

      

ST

15

0.3

Peterborough District H & Pilgrim H/PE, 1996–2004

2972

(76.1)

702

(18.0)

229

(5.9)

3903

 

Not known

227

5.5

      

Total

4113

100.0

Royal Liverpool H, Univ. H Aintree, Countess of Chester, Arrowe Park H*/L+CH, 1996–2004

8772

(85.6)

1053

(10.3)

418

(4.1)

10243

    

Pool H/BH, 1996–2004**

1705

(77.3)

334

(15.1)

168

(7.6)

2207

    
  1. *all cases age ≥ 16 years; ** excludes year 2002; *** in bold the first districts that account for 83.1% of hospital admissions