Dementia

(asked on 7th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

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


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

The table below shows a count of emergency finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary and secondary diagnosis of dementia from 2006-07 to 2015-16.

Note, this is not a count of people as the same person may have had more than one admission episode within the same time period.

Emergency FAEs

Year

Primary diagnosis

Secondary diagnoses

2006-07

12,719

105,998

2007-08

12,286

119,765

2008-09

12,501

141,292

2009-10

12,955

163,555

2010-11

13,113

188,372

2011-12

13,040

204,857

2012-13

13,615

229,666

2013-14

13,048

245,911

2014-15

13,960

276,910

2015-16

14,816

288,749

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

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