Patients: Accidents

(asked on 3rd June 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Jonathan Ashworth Portrait
Jonathan Ashworth
(Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patient falls were recorded in NHS hospitals in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 11th June 2019

The following answer is based on data provided by NHS England and NHS Improvement.

The following table provides the total number of reported 'slips, falls and trips' of National Health Service patients in hospitals in England by financial year for the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2019 and reported by 4 June 2019.

2009/10

274,313

2010/11

275,945

2011/12

273,264

2012/13

267,451

2013/14

257,667

2014/15

259,481

2015/16

251,019

2016/17

249,604

2017/18

241,146

2018/19

226,500

Total

2,576,390

Source: National Reporting and Learning System

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