Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many pensioners were admitted to hospital with malnutrition in (a) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) East Lancashire NHS Foundation Trust in the last 12 months.
NHS Digital has provided a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs)1 for patients aged 60 years and over with a primary or secondary diagnosis2 of malnutrition3 to Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and East Lancashire NHS Foundation Trust4 in 2016/175. This information is provided in the following table.
Hospital provider | FAEs | |
RXN | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 20 |
RXR | East Lancashire NHS Foundation Trust | 12 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital
Notes:
Malnutrition:
E40 Kwashiorkor
E41 Nutritional marasmus
E42 Marasmic kwashiorkor
E43 Unspecified severe protein-energy malnutrition
E44 Protein-energy malnutrition of moderate and mild degree
E45 Retarded development following protein-energy malnutrition
E46 Unspecified protein-energy malnutrition
O25 Malnutrition in pregnancy
The presence of an ICD-10 code of malnutrition on the admission episode indicates that the patient was diagnosed with, and would therefore being treated for malnutrition during the episode of care. The cause of malnutrition is not presented here but may be due to dietary issues, an inability to absorb nutrients normally or another disease affecting the patient’s ability to feed normally.
It should be noted that HES include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity ending between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.