From Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust, May day University Hospital, 530 London Road, Croydon, Surrey, CR7 7YE

27 May 2003

Dear Ms Shaw

Thank you for your letter of 19th May 2003.

Your request for information has been passed to the Director for Public Health Medicine at Croydon Primary Care Trust who will, hopfully, have the detail you are looking for.

Yours sincerely

Christina Bonanno (Mrs)

Patient Services Manager

cc Director of Public Health Medicine, Croydon PCT, Knollys House, Mr Matthew Deaney (Information Services, Mayday) PSD

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FROM Croydon NHS Primary Care Trust, Headquarters, Knollys House, 17 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, Surry, CR0 6SR
Department of Public Health

11 June 2003

Dear Ms Shaw

Your letter dated 14th March addressed to the Patient Liaison Service at Mayday Hospital, Croydon has been passed to me for reply. You do not indicate in your letter what trust or area you would like this information for but as your letter was sent to Mayday Hospital I assume you want figures for the Trust. Croydon PCT does not hold this information but I suggest you contact the Office for National Statistics who publish data on births and deaths for the whole country. They can be contacted at:

The Library
Office for National Statistics
Cardiff Road
Newport
NP10 8XG
Tel: 0845 601 3034

More information is available free on their website www.statistics.gov.uk, and older information can be purchased from their bookshop.

The data on hysterectomies may be available routinely from the Department of Health, who publish statistics on hospital activity on their website http://www.doh.gov.uk/hes/free_data/index.html. If the webste does not hold what you need, you should contact

Susan Alpay
Statistics Division 2
Hospital Episode Statistics
Room 430B
Skipton House
80 London Road
Elephant and Castle
London
SE1 6LH
Tel: 020 7972 5529

Regarding your second inquiry, as I'm sure you can appreciate the PCT cannot pass on details of individuals as we have no knowledge of their fitness to provide support to our patients. However patient who wnat the kind of support you appear to be offereing often approach voluntary sector organisations. I suggest you contact voluntary services such as the National Childbirth Trust in your area and they may be able to advise you.

Yours sincerely,

(signed)

Catherine Scott
Public Health Specialist
Assistant Director