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<p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information
on the number of bed days for patients aged between 0 and 17 (inclusive) treated at
Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust for each year in 2009-10 to 2013-14 is shown
in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Count
of bed days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>9,092</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>9,457</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>8,121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>9,214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14
(provisional)</p></td><td><p>8,074</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p>
</p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><p>1. Episode duration (Bed days):</p><p>Episode duration
is calculated as the difference in days between the episode start date and the episode
end date, where both are given. Episode duration is based on finished consultant episodes
and only applies to ordinary admissions, i.e. day cases are excluded (unless otherwise
stated).</p><p>2. Hospital Provider:</p><p>A provider code is a unique code that identifies
an organisation acting as a health care provider (e.g. National Health Service trust
or primary care trust). Data from some independent sector providers, where the onus
for arrangement of dataflows is on the commissioner, may be missing. Care must be
taken when using this data as the counts may be lower than true figures.</p><p>3.
Assessing growth through time (Admitted patient care):</p><p>HES figures are available
from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the
context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years),
improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07)
and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes
in the provision of care.</p><p>4. Provisional Data:</p><p>The data is provisional
and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made.
Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated
for the same period in the final dataset. This shortfall will be most pronounced in
the final month of the latest period, i.e. November from the (month 9) April to November
extract. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular
affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding
inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.</p><p> </p>
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