Influenza
(asked on 7th June 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 flu-confirmed hospital admissions there were in each year since 2010-11.
Data are not collected on the total number of cases from all acute trusts in England.
The following table shows the number of hospitalisations for severe influenza over eight influenza seasons in England from 2011/12 (when data was available) to 2017/18.
The 2017/18 season experienced the highest rate to date with almost 10,000 confirmed cases observed, translating to approximately 90 cases per 100,000 trust catchment population. A similar picture was observed in a number of other European countries. The 2017/18 data for England is being investigated further to understand factors driving this increase.
Number of hospitalisations for severe influenza over eight influenza seasons in England from 2011/12-2017/18.
| Number of reporting Trusts | Total Number of flu confirmed hospitalised cases (all levels of care) |
2010/11* | 23 | 1,651 |
2011/12 | 34 | 551 |
2012/13 | 32 | 1,400 |
2013/14 | 35 | 906 |
2014/15 | 32 | 1,738 |
2015/16 | 27 | 2,781 |
2016/17 | 22 | 1,575 |
2017/18** | 25 | 9,996 |
Notes:
*Data for the 2010/11 season was only available up to week 10 of 2011.
**Data for the 2017/18 season is truncated to week 15 to allow for end of season reporting.
Annual data based on final weekly extracts are included in the 2017/18 annual report (see Figure 14), available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-flu-reports
The final extracts from each season may not necessarily reflect the numbers published in previous annual reports.
The data are based on returns from a core set of sentinel acute National Health Service trusts (approximately 25-30) providing weekly aggregate number on laboratory confirmed influenza admitted to hospital to all levels of care (critical care and other wards).