Chickenpox

(asked on 16th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been (a) diagnosed with and (b) hospitalised as a result of chickenpox in (i) England and (ii) the UK in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 22nd April 2020

Chickenpox is not a notifiable disease in England, therefore data on the exact number of people diagnosed with chickenpox are not available.

A count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of chickenpox in England for the financial years 2014-15 to 2018-19, provided by NHS Digital, is attached.

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