Table 2.

Scottish Regional Treatment Centre, Stracathro (Netcare). Comparison of NHS Tayside figures and data reported to ISD at 31 January 2008^*

Activity group	Procedures carried out and reported locally by NHS Tayside†		Procedures carried out and reported to ISD
	Volume	Annual contract percentage	Volume	Annual contract percentage
Joint replacement‡	46	8%	49	9%
Minor orthopaedics§	385	127%	270	89%
General surgery**	698	63%	144	13%
ENT††	114	79%	134	94%
Plastic surgery§	166	147%	113	100%
Urology	216	52%	178	43%
Not in contract	95‡‡		100
Total volume	1 720	66%	990	38%

ISD=Information Services Division

^*Not including outpatient assessments or unspecified additional activity from the contract

^†Fife, Grampian and Tayside health boards only (there were only four treatments from other health boards to 1 January 2008)

^‡The Healthcare Resource Group codes H80 and H81 were used instead of H02, which had been coded incorrectly in original contract (personal communication with NHS Tayside Scottish Regional Treatment Centre contract manager, 2008); equivalent to ‘Major Joints’ category in NHS Tayside report (personal communication with NHS Tayside Scottish Regional Treatment Centre contract manager, 2008)

^§All H13s counted as minor orthopaedics; there were no plastic surgery H13s (personal communication with NHS Tayside Scottish Regional Treatment Centre contract manager, 2008)

^**Equivalent to ‘General Surgery’ plus ‘Endoscopy’ categories in the NHS Tayside report (personal communication with NHS Tayside Scottish Regional Treatment Centre contract manager, 2008)

^††Equivalent to ‘ENT’ plus ‘Oral Surgery’ categories in the NHS Tayside report (personal communication with NHS Tayside Scottish Regional Treatment Centre contract manager, 2008)

^‡‡This figure is for ‘ENT Diagnostics’ category which corresponds to HRG C04 (personal communication with NHS Tayside Scottish Regional Treatment Centre contract manager, 2008)