Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people over the age of 60 have been diagnosed with an eating disorder in each of the last five years.

The table below shows the number of cases where people aged over 60 received a primary diagnosis of eating disorder on admission to hospital, for the years requested. The same patient may have been admitted more than once in the same year. These are diagnoses for hospital admissions only and there may be cases diagnosed in other care settings, for which information is not collected centrally.

A count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of eating disorders for ages 60 and over, from 2010-11 to 2015-16

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

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital