Scurvy
(asked on 27th April 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 scurvy there were in each year since 2010.
The data on the number of individual patients with scurvy are not collected as the same person may attend a National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion. Data on the number of finished admissions episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of scurvy, for the financial years between 2010-11 and 2016-17 are available in the following table:
Financial Year | FAEs |
2010-11 | Less than 10 |
2011-12 | Less than 10 |
2012-13 | 18 |
2013-14 | 17 |
2014-15 | 17 |
2015-16 | 12 |
2016-17 | Less than 10 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital.
Note:
A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.
The primary diagnosis recorded in the HES data set provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital.
HES uses the World Health Organization’s ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision) to record diagnosis information. In this case, code ‘E54. X - Ascorbic acid deficiency’ has been used.