Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the change in the number of people diagnosed with Crohn's disease between 2008 and 2018.
Information regarding number of patients diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in any one year is not available, and therefore no estimate has been made. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, ‘Crohn’s disease: management’, updated in 2016 to reflect the last available evidence, states that at least 115,000 people in the United Kingdom have the condition.
The guidance can be found at the following link:
www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg152/resources/crohns-disease-management-pdf-35109627942085