Gout

(asked on 30th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with gout in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 21st October 2020

This data is not held in the format requested. The ‘Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity’ reports from NHS Digital identify the total number of admissions to hospital from 2011/12 to 2019/20 where gout was the primary reason for admission. These reports also include figures on instances in which gout appeared as either a primary or secondary diagnosis (i.e. where it was present but may not have been the main reason for the admission). It is important to note that these are counts of episodes, not patients, so a patient may appear more than once in the figures if they have had multiple episodes. The reports are available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity

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