Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people aged 65 and over suffered a hip fracture as a result of a fall in each year since 2009-10.

A count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of hip fracture and where there was an external cause of fall, for patients aged 65 and over for the years 2009-10 to 2017-18, is shown in the following table.

This is a count of admissions, not patients, as the same patient may have been admitted on more than one occasion within the time period:

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital