Guillain-Barré Syndrome
(asked on 14th October 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome have been recorded in each of the last ten years.
This question was answered on 24th October 2024
The information is not held in the format requested. However, the following table shows a count of the Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) where the primary diagnosis was Guillain-Barré syndrome, for the period 2014/15 to 2023/24 in England:
Year | FAEs |
2014/15 | 1,403 |
2015/16 | 1,354 |
2016/17 | 1,412 |
2017/18 | 1,342 |
2018/19 | 1,337 |
2019/20 | 1,354 |
2020/21 | 921 |
2021/22 | 1,243 |
2022/23 | 1,374 |
2023/24 | 1,367 |
Source: data is from the Hospital Episode Statistics, by NHS England.
Notes:
- admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period;
- an FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider, and are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes; and
- this data refers to activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.