Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of admissions to hospital for cannabis use in the last five years.
The following table shows the number of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis recorded for cannabis use, in each of the last five years:
Year | Hospital admissions |
2022/23 | 189 |
2021/22 | 354 |
2020/21 | 508 |
2019/20 | 367 |
2018/19 | 375 |
Source: NHS England publishes information on hospital admissions, which is available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity