NHS patients seen in outpatients
Endoscopies
Lifetime number of upper GI endoscopies (carried out or supervised) is over 12.000.
Over 100 expanding metallic stents placed for oesophageal cancer.
Complications: one perforation when inserting a stent for an oesophageal cancer
Over 500 percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube insertions.
1 death.
Over 1.000 wireless capsule enteroscopies performed and interpreted.
Complications: One case of capsule retention in a person with small bowel malignancy.
Lifetime number of lower GI colonoscopy (carried out or supervised) is over 10.000. Consistently achieving caecal intubation rates well over 90% of cases.
Complications: Three perforations requiring surgery in the last 19 years.
2017: 983
2016: 1357
2015: 1194
2014: 1652
2013: 2055
2012: 2638
2011: 2962
2010: 3240
2009: 3019
2008: 3175
2007: 2248
2006: 1921
Endoscopies
Lifetime number of upper GI endoscopies (carried out or supervised) is over 12.000.
Over 100 expanding metallic stents placed for oesophageal cancer.
Complications: one perforation when inserting a stent for an oesophageal cancer
Over 500 percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube insertions.
1 death.
Over 1.000 wireless capsule enteroscopies performed and interpreted.
Complications: One case of capsule retention in a person with small bowel malignancy.
Lifetime number of lower GI colonoscopy (carried out or supervised) is over 10.000. Consistently achieving caecal intubation rates well over 90% of cases.
Complications: Three perforations requiring surgery in the last 19 years.