Illness	Number of cases
Spondylosis (M47.86)	394
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	177
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	109
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	64
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Sacrococcygeal disorders not elsewhere classified (M53.3)	51
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	46
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	46
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	37
Spondylosis (M47.87)	34
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	30

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	5
Treatment by the targeted insertion of a needle into a joint with subsequent administration or removal of substances, e.g. fluid (8-158.t)	0
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	0
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	0

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3700 , 3755

Type of specialist department

Main Department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)
No participation

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
45	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
34	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
34	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	im Bildungszentrum Niederrhein Wesel (BZNW)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	im Bildungszentrum Niederrhein (BZNW)
HB19	Nursing professionals	im Bildungszentrum Niederrhein