Diabetes

(asked on 16th March 2017) - View Source

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.


This question was answered on 21st March 2017

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)

  1. A finished admission episode (FAE) is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.
  2. The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the HES data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital.
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