Heroin
(asked on 20th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many heroin-related (a) hospital admissions and (b) deaths there have been in the last five years.
The table below shows the count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis and primary or secondary diagnosis of poisoning by heroin for the years 2012-13 to 2016-17. The table shows activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
Year | Primary diagnosis | Primary or secondary diagnosis |
2012-13 | 1,243 | 1,781 |
2013-14 | 1,827 | 2,499 |
2014-15 | 2,213 | 2,974 |
2015-16 | 2,342 | 3,179 |
2016-17 | 2,023 | 2,917 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
The number of deaths registered in England and Wales where heroin and/or morphine were mentioned on the death certificate are in the table below:
Year | Number of deaths due to heroin and/or morphine |
2012 | 579 |
2013 | 765 |
2014 | 952 |
2015 | 1,201 |
2016 | 1,209 |
These figures were published by the Office of National Statistics in the Statistical Bulletin Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales:2016 registrations (published August 2017) and are available at: