Dementia

(asked on 7th December 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Jonathan Ashworth Portrait
Jonathan Ashworth
(Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital bed days there were for people with a (a) primary and (b) secondary diagnosis of dementia in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by
Portrait
David Mowat
This question was answered on 12th December 2016

The table below shows a count of hospital bed days for finished consultant episodes with a primary and secondary diagnosis of dementia, 2006-07 to 2015-16.

Bed days

Year

Primary Diagnosis

Secondary Diagnosis

2006-07

1,305,593

2,035,298

2007-08

1,203,527

2,083,917

2008-09

1,066,563

2,310,015

2009-10

1,042,050

2,484,301

2010-11

971,236

2,664,566

2011-12

903,712

2,740,534

2012-13

966,549

2,971,908

2013-14

813,247

3,094,929

2014-15

816,237

3,401,244

2015-16

761,819

3,477,810

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital, bespoke data

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