Macular Degeneration

(asked on 13th December 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Shannon Portrait
Jim Shannon
(Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration in each of the last five years; and what the age profile of such people was in each such year.

Answered by
Portrait
David Mowat
This question was answered on 20th December 2016

We do not have information on the numbers of people diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration in each of the last five years.

What we do have is the number of finished admission episodes, for England, for the last five years, where the primary diagnosis was ‘degeneration of the macular and posterior pole’. This is set out in the table below.

Age group

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

0-4

2

3

2

3

3

5-9

2

7

3

6

7

10-14

9

8

8

3

9

15-19

18

10

11

9

12

20-24

32

21

36

20

28

25-29

29

33

47

45

44

30-34

42

57

56

58

60

35-39

73

101

100

73

66

40-44

156

162

229

148

149

45-49

254

319

377

386

336

50-54

439

477

636

603

647

55-59

812

973

1,216

1,283

1,122

60-64

2,589

2,647

2,833

2,767

2,595

65-69

5,153

5,982

6,427

6,729

6,297

70-74

8,937

9,770

9,847

10,671

10,488

75-79

14,051

15,347

14,506

16,069

15,630

80-84

17,083

18,765

17,747

18,847

18,042

85-89

13,960

15,550

14,262

15,497

15,438

90+

6,179

7,320

7,318

8,580

8,721

Unknown

6

7

11

18

20

Total

69,826

77,559

75,672

81,815

79,714

Source: Hospital Episodes Statistics, NHS Digital

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