Cryptosporidia

(asked on 20th May 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of Cryptosporidiosis have been recorded (a) by each NHS trust, (b) by each integrated care board and (c) in total in each of the last ten years.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
This question was answered on 23rd May 2024

While this information is not held in the requested format, the following table shows the laboratory reported figures for cryptosporidiosis, and the reports of cryptosporidiosis per 100,000 people, in England and Wales, each year from 2008 to 2017:

Year

Number of laboratory reports

per 100,000 population

2008

4,162

7.6

2009

4,831

8.7

2010

3,901

7.0

2011

2,990

5.3

2012

5,765

10.2

2013

3,520

6.2

2014

4,023

7.0

2015

5,222

9.0

2016

5,925

10.1

2017

4,292

7.3


Source: data is taken from Public Health England’s report, Cryptosporidium data 2008 to 2017, available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cryptosporidium-national-laboratory-data/cryptosporidium-data-2008-to-2017

Note: figures for England 2018 to 2023 are due to be published in Summer 2024.

In addition, the following table shows the regional distribution of the laboratory reports of cryptosporidium in England and Wales, in 2017:

Country

Region

Number of laboratory reports

per 100,000 population

England

East Midlands

378

7.9

England

East of England

539

8.7

England

London

250

2.8

England

North East

275

10.4

England

North West

554

7.6

England

South East

582

6.4

England

South West

590

10.6

England

Yorkshire and The Humber

450

8.3

England

West Midlands

414

7.1

Wales

Wales

260

8.3

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