Malnutrition
(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were admitted to hospital with malnutrition as a (a) primary or (b) secondary condition in (i) England, (ii) each clinical commissioning group and (iii) each parliamentary constituency in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
A count of people admitted to hospital in England with malnutrition as a primary and secondary condition in each of the last 10 years is provided in the table below.
Year | 2007-2008 | 2008-2009 | 2009-2010 | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 |
Primary Admissions | 407 | 394 | 479 | 543 | 662 | 682 | 625 | 746 | 754 | 806 |
Secondary Admissions | 2,318 | 2,804 | 3,338 | 4,167 | 4,772 | 4,893 | 6,078 | 6,649 | 7,157 | 7,652 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics NHS Digital
A count of people admitted to hospital in England with malnutrition as a primary and secondary condition by each clinical commissioning group (CCG) in each of the last 10 years is provided in the attached document. Data for National Health Service primary care trusts (PCTs) for the years between 2007-08 and 2009-10 is provided. CCG data from 2010-11 onwards is provided following their formation as replacement for PCTs. Data is not collected at parliamentary constituency level.
This is a count of hospital attendances resulting in admissions, not individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into a NHS hospital on more than one occasion.