Rickets: Children and Young People
(asked on 28th 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 cases of rickets among children and young people there were in each of the last 10 years.
The information is not available in the format requested. We are able to provide a count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of rickets, tabulated by age between 0 and 18 for the financial years between 2007-08 and 2016-17. A finished admission episode or spell is defined as a continuous period of time spent as a patient within a trust, and may include more than one episode. This is shown in the following table:
Age | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
0 | 29 | 37 | 19 | 20 | 29 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 10 |
1 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 28 | 22 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 12 |
2 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
3 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
12 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital.
Note:
Validated but unpublished information on primary rickets diagnosis.