Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with HELLP syndrome in each of the last five years.

This table shows a count of the number of finished admission episodes (FAEs)¹ in England with a primary diagnosis² of HELLP Syndrome from 2011-12 to 2015-16³. The table shows activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector:

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

¹ A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider.

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.

³ HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures which may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and so no longer include in admitted patient HES data. Conversely, apparent increases in activity may be due to improved recording of diagnosis or procedure information.

Note that HES include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity ending between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.