Accident and Emergency Departments: Children and Young People

(asked on 19th July 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Alex Cunningham Portrait
Alex Cunningham
(Labour - Stockton North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many emergency admissions there were of children and young people under 24-years old in each of the last six years.

Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 6th September 2017

The information requested is in the table below, which shows a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with an emergency admission method, for:

- Asthma;

- Acute bronchitis; and

- All emergency admissions.

The data is for the whole of England and those aged less than 24 years. The data is for each financial year between 2010-11 and 2015-16.

Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

Asthma

29,807

26,302

30,251

27,325

30,092

28,605

Acute bronchitis

618

626

756

830

612

529

All

1,121,415

1,086,573

1,109,767

1,106,448

1,125,604

1,157,629

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital

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