Brain: Injuries

(asked on 3rd September 2018) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 6th September 2018

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.

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