Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital bed days were used by patients with obesity-related conditions in each of the last three years; and if he will publish that information by (a) sex and (b) age group.
NHS Digital has provided a count of the number of hospital bed days1 for finished admission episodes2 with a primary diagnosis3 of obesity, tabulated by sex and age band, for the financial years between 2014-15 and 2016-174. This information is provided in the table below.
Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector | ||||||
| 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | |||
Age | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female |
0-9 | 45 | 94 | 62 | 48 | 69 | 58 |
10-19 | 83 | 290 | 193 | 171 | 91 | 271 |
20-29 | 1,278 | 1,076 | 250 | 992 | 284 | 1,143 |
30-39 | 612 | 2,578 | 803 | 2,242 | 1,479 | 2,810 |
40-49 | 1,665 | 4,224 | 1,555 | 4,442 | 1,296 | 3,825 |
50-59 | 2,012 | 4,093 | 1,813 | 5,026 | 1,970 | 4,236 |
60-69 | 1,732 | 2,803 | 1,364 | 2,861 | 1,616 | 3,190 |
70-79 | 757 | 1,853 | 561 | 1,634 | 690 | 1,797 |
80-89 | 168 | 707 | 236 | 740 | 368 | 823 |
90+ | 16 | 109 | 4 | 22 | 67 | 57 |
Unknown | 10 | 42 | 17 | 43 | 72 | 147 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital
Notes:
1Episode duration is calculated as the difference in days between the episode start date and the episode end date, where both are given. Episode duration is based on finished consultant episodes (FCE) and only applies to ordinary admissions, i.e. day cases are excluded (unless otherwise stated).
2A FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.
3The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 diagnosis fields in the HES data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital.
4HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.