Diabetes: Children
(asked on 23rd February 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children under the age of 18 were newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in each of the last five years, and how many of those cases involved hospital admission through accident and emergency departments.
The information is not held in the format requested.
Information is held on the count of finished admission episodes on emergency admissions and those made through accident and emergency (A&E) departments for patients aged between zero and 17 years old with a primary diagnosis of 'type 1 diabetes' for activity between 2020/21 to 2024/25.
Year | Total admissions (including non- emergency) | All emergency admissions (including those not made via A&E department) | Emergency admissions made via the A&E department |
2020/21 | 6,006 | 5,569 | 3,771 |
2021/22 | 7,120 | 6,561 | 4,483 |
2022/23 | 6,508 | 6,027 | 4,175 |
2023/24 | 6,271 | 5,792 | 4,179 |
2024/25 | 6,013 | 5,537 | 4,171 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS England