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. 2021 Nov 8;13(11):3977. doi: 10.3390/nu13113977

Table 3.

Number of patients in England with PKU and/or using SLPFs under the care of an NHS hospital/centre.

Centre Number of PKU Paediatric
Patients ***
Number of PKU Adult
Patients ***
Number of Patients on Full/Partial Phe-Restricted Diet Number of Non-PKU Inherited Metabolic Disorder Patients Using SLPFs
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital 110 0 110 15
Evelina London Children’s Healthcare—part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 168 0 144 55
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust—Adult IMD service 0 195 145 10
Great Ormond Street Hospital 163 0 159 53
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust—Queen Elizabeth Hospital 0 153 134 30
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 0 378 235 30
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 58 0 58 21
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital 96 0 96 27
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children 71 0 67 18
North Bristol NHS Trust 0 58 41 1
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust 54 0 54 17
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust 0 334 186 58
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 14 36 47—of which 14 are paediatric patients 3
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust 52 0 42 21
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 0 160 90 20
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 13 0 10 12
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust 24 0 24 9
Great North Children’s Hospital—within the Royal Victoria Infirmary 64 0 63 9
Royal Victoria Infirmary—Adult IMD services 0 74 43 5
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital 15 0 15 -
Royal Derby Hospital 6 6 6—all of which are paediatric patients -
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (1) 8 (+1) 5 (+1) 3
Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust 1 (+1) 9 5 (+1)—1 of which is a paediatric patient and not shared care 2
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust 4 (+7) 23 (+1) 23 (+8)—4 of which are paediatric patients and not shared care 3
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 10 2 12—10 of which are paediatric patients 0
University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust 0 (21) (20) 0
TOTAL 923 1436 1814—877 of which are paediatric patients 422

Abbreviations: SLPFs = special low protein foods; PKU = phenylketonuria; Phe = phenylalanine. ( ) shared care with another unit so numbers not included in totals. *** This includes patients with mild PKU/hyperphenylalaninaemia who maintain phenylalanine levels within target therapeutic range without dietary treatment.