Domestic Accidents: Older People
(asked on 16th April 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 emergency hospital admissions there have been following falls by patients aged 65 and over in each financial year since 2010-11.
NHS England publishes information on finished consultant episodes (FCEs) for admitted patients, which is available at the following link:
The following table shows the total number of FCEs relating to a fall, where the patient was 65 years old or over, each year from 2012/13, the earliest year from which data is available, to 2022/23:
Year | FCEs relating to a fall |
2012/13 | 283,794 |
2013/14 | 290,381 |
2014/15 | 304,049 |
2015/16 | 312,476 |
2016/17 | 316,647 |
2017/18 | 334,986 |
2018/19 | 345,494 |
2019/20 | 360,677 |
2020/21 | 334,418 |
2021/22 | 350,545 |
2022/23 | 339,928 |