Strokes: Hospitals
(asked on 7th January 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends of hospital admissions of those with stroke symptoms in the last 5 years.
The following table shows the trend in stroke admissions for the last five years:
Year | Stroke admissions incidence | Stroke admissions rate per 100,000 population |
2020/21 | 89,739 | 166.3 |
2021/22 | 93,710 | 171.4 |
2022/23 | 93,753 | 168.4 |
2023/24 | 97,843 | 173.1 |
2024/25 | 99,494 | 172.7 |
Source: Fingertips, avaiable at the following link:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/stroke%20admissions#page/4/gid/1/pat/159/par/K02000001/ati/15/are/E92000001/iid/90986/age/1/sex/4/cat/-1/ctp/-1/yrr/1/cid/4/tbm/1