Patients
(asked on 29th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what statistics his Department collects on the body mass index of patients admitted as in-patients or out-patients at hospitals; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 3rd February 2016
The information requested is not collected centrally. The Health and Social Care Information Centre does not collect body mass index details as part of the accident and emergency or Hospital Episode Statistics datasets.