Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital admissions for patients aged 65 and over were the result of a fall in each of the last five years.
The following table shows data on hospital admissions for fall incidents involving people aged 65 years old and over in the past five years:
Year | Count |
2022/2023 | 348,753 |
2021/2022 | 358,376 |
2020/2021 | 342,273 |
2019/2020 | 369,506 |
2018/2019 | 353,266 |
Source: Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, NHS Digital