Water: Standards
(asked on 24th June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of (a) hospital admissions and (b) reported illnesses associated with exposure to (i) Vibrio, (ii) Campylobacter and (iii) Pseudomonas aeruginosa in UK bathing waters in each of the last five years.
Information is not available in the format requested. However, the following table shows the number of admissions with a primary diagnosis related to vibrio, campylobacter, and pseudomonas, from 2019/20 to 2023/24:
Primary diagnosis | 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 | 2019/20 |
Cholera due to Vibrio cholerae 01, biovar cholerae | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Campylobacter enteritis | 5,520 | 4,341 | 4,685 | 3,719 | 3,994 |
Pneumonia due to Pseudomonas | 1,145 | 1,009 | 863 | 586 | 990 |
Congenital pneumonia due to Pseudomonas | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Source: Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, available at the following link:
The above data does not record the underlying causation, including any illness associated with United Kingdom bathing waters.