Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of traumatic brain injuries that have happened in each year of the last five years.
A count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) with a primary or secondary diagnosis of traumatic brain injury is shown in the following table for the last five years in which data is currently available.
Year | Primary diagnosis | Primary or secondary diagnosis |
2012-13 | 28,733 | 35,288 |
2013-14 | 31,724 | 39,051 |
2014-15 | 35,048 | 43,440 |
2015-16 | 38,744 | 48,662 |
2016-17 | 42,224 | 53,974 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
FCE activity for traumatic brain injuries, by National Health Service trusts, is displayed in the attached table owing to its size, and reports on 2016-17 which is the latest available data.
An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.
Information surrounding the average cost of treating an acquired brain injury is not collected centrally.