Department of Health: Written Questions
(asked on 12th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2016 to Question 30023, on malnutrition, if he will provide the information requested in the same format as that provided to the hon. Member for Eddisbury in the Answer of 18 December 2007 to Question 174970; and if he will make a statement.
The information requested is not available in a published form, but has been extracted from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data and is presented in Table 1.
| Primary Diagnosis | Secondary Diagnosis | ||||||||||
| Malnutrition | Nutritional Anaemia | Other Nutritional Deficiency | Malnutrition | Nutritional Anaemia | Other Nutritional Deficiency | ||||||
Year | Admissions | Discharges | Admissions | Discharges | Admissions | Discharges | Admissions | Discharges | Admissions | Discharges | Admissions | Discharges |
2010/11 | 543 | 585 | 69,152 | 70,674 | 3,267 | 3,438 | 4,167 | 5,027 | 124,662 | 134,808 | 31,235 | 33,688 |
2011/12 | 662 | 706 | 72,931 | 74,537 | 3,281 | 3,479 | 4,772 | 5,761 | 125,253 | 135,522 | 39,184 | 42,387 |
2012/13 | 682 | 732 | 76,541 | 78,133 | 3,850 | 4,046 | 4,893 | 6,034 | 130,546 | 141,620 | 52,969 | 57,794 |
2013/14 | 625 | 686 | 84,269 | 85,871 | 4,161 | 4,394 | 6,078 | 7,455 | 142,463 | 154,591 | 61,394 | 67,010 |
2014/15 | 746 | 812 | 92,978 | 94,821 | 4,078 | 4,318 | 6,649 | 8,110 | 155,495 | 169,198 | 74,870 | 82,030 |
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Table 1 (unpublished HES data)
Note:
Finished admission and discharge episodes are counted against the year or month in which the episode finishes. They do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission/discharge within the period.
Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage, improvements in coverage of independent sector activity and changes in National Health Service practice. For example, apparent increases in activity may be due to improved recording of diagnosis or procedure information. Note HES include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012/13 includes activity ending between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.