Domestic Accidents: Older People

(asked on 6th December 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 for patients aged 65 and over were the result of a fall in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 11th December 2023

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

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