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 information his Department collects on the number of A&E visits by patients who are (a) above and (b) below the recommended body mass index to NHS hospitals in each of the last 10 years; 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.