Injuries: Accident and Emergency Departments

(asked on 31st October 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Grahame Morris Portrait
Grahame Morris
(Labour - Easington)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted via accident and emergency departments with a primary diagnosis of dislocation, fracture, joint injury or amputation in each month since 2010-11.

Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 6th November 2017

A count of unplanned accident and emergency (A&E) attendances1 that resulted in a hospital admission2, for primary diagnoses of 'dislocation/fracture/joint injury/amputation'3, by month, 2010-11 to 2016-174 is in the table below.

This is a count of hospital attendances resulting in admissions, not individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into a National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion.

Month

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

April

10,355

11,170

9,872

10,550

10,666

11,164

10,698

May

10,808

10,725

11,331

11,367

11,147

11,138

12,081

June

10,291

10,325

10,430

11,268

11,368

11,542

11,157

July

10,508

11,078

11,132

11,790

11,407

11,638

12,197

August

10,319

11,188

11,616

11,840

10,892

11,705

11,446

September

10,088

10,937

11,291

10,857

10,984

11,312

11,039

October

9,870

10,956

10,631

10,583

10,079

10,878

10,715

November

8,805

9,890

9,833

10,289

9,246

10,109

9,771

December

11,111

11,083

10,731

11,018

10,232

10,518

10,492

January

8,765

9,920

10,533

10,302

9,441

10,480

10,237

February

7,954

9,783

8,961

9,688

8,372

9,734

9,174

March

9,158

10,564

9,962

11,148

9,516

10,219

10,638

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

1The following attendance category codes identify unplanned A&E attendances:

1 = First A&E attendance

3 = Follow-up A&E attendance – unplanned

9 = Not known

2Attendance disposal 01 = Admitted to hospital bed / become a lodged patient of the same health care provider.

3A&E Diagnosis – The recording of the diagnosis field within the A&E data set is not mandatory. It is not known to what extent changes over time are as a result of improvements in recording practice.

05 = Dislocation/fracture/joint injury/amputation

4HES figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care. Note that HES include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity occurring between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.

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