Multiple Sclerosis
(asked on 12th May 2025) - 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 diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in the past 12 months.
This information is not held in the format requested. The Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), published by NHS England, includes a count of the total number of admissions with a primary diagnosis of multiple sclerosis between April 2024 and February 2025, by the age and sex of the patient. However, this data is not a count of patients, as an individual may be admitted on more than one occasion in any given period with the same diagnosis. The following table shows a count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by age and sex in 2024/25, with provisional data to February 2025:
Age group in years | Female | Male | Unknown | Total |
5 to 9 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
10 to 14 | 52 | 28 |
| 80 |
15 to 19 | 456 | 156 | 14 | 626 |
20 to 24 | 1,316 | 482 |
| 1,798 |
25 to 29 | 3,526 | 1,177 | 56 | 4,759 |
30 to 34 | 5,974 | 1,797 | 159 | 7,930 |
35 to 39 | 6,508 | 2,162 | 156 | 8,826 |
40 to 44 | 6,401 | 2,321 | 175 | 8,897 |
45 - 49 | 5,388 | 1,955 | 66 | 7,409 |
50 to 54 | 5,030 | 2,027 | 94 | 7,151 |
55 to 59 | 3,924 | 1,580 | 56 | 5,560 |
60 to 64 | 2,313 | 999 | 52 | 3,364 |
65 to 69 | 971 | 491 | 15 | 1,477 |
70 to 74 | 341 | 262 | 3 | 606 |
75 to 79 | 190 | 72 | 6 | 268 |
80 to 84 | 49 | 24 | 1 | 74 |
85 to 89 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 21 |
90 and over | 2 | 2 |
| 4 |
unknown | 72 | 40 |
| 112 |
All ages | 42,526 | 15,583 | 854 | 58,963 |
Source: HES, NHS England.