Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital admissions there were with a primary diagnosis of diabetes in each of the last seven years.
The number of finished admission episodes1 with a primary diagnosis2 of diabetes between 2009-10 and 2015-16 is shown in the following table.
2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
73,655 | 79,845 | 75,606 | 65,375 | 64,641 | 65,002 | 68,920 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)