Allergies: Health Services

(asked on 28th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital admissions due to anaphylaxis there have been in each year since 2000.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 4th December 2023

Data on admissions due to anaphylaxis is not available prior to 2011. The following table shows the number of admissions due to anaphylaxis between 2011/12 and 2022/23:

Year

Anaphylactic shock due to adverse food reaction

Anaphylactic shock, unspecified

Anaphylactic shock due to serum

Anaphylactic shock due to adverse effect of correct drug or medicament properly administered

2022/23

1482

1589

20

579

2021/22

1903

2364

27

617

2020/21

1906

2406

37

565

2019/20

2134

2708

11

664

2018/19

2287

2670

18

532

2017/18

1855

2345

11

625

2016/17

1768

2324

16

679

2015/16

1711

2116

9

646

2014/15

1594

1958

19

634

2013/14

1505

1992

7

608

2012/13

1381

1764

12

590

2011/12

1258

1871

7

599

Source: NHS England

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