Shingles
(asked on 11th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many shingles cases have led to complications requiring treatment in the last five years.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) does not collect data on shingles cases that have led to complications requiring treatment. NHS England has provided the number of hospital admissions, with and without complications, from 2018/19 to 2022/23:
| 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Total with Complications | 1,521 | 1,552 | 1,259 | 1,486 | 1,401 |
Total without Complications | 2,008 | 2,024 | 1,623 | 1,806 | 1,730 |
Grand Total | 3,529 | 3,576 | 2,882 | 3,292 | 3,131 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS England
This should not be described as counts of people, however, as the same person may have more than one admission within any given time period. In addition, the UKHSA has published a paper showing the impact of the zostavax vaccine on the number of hospital admissions, which is available at the following link:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32641364/