Macular Degeneration

(asked on 12th October 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Shannon Portrait
Jim Shannon
(Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in each Office for National Statistics age group were diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 20th October 2015

It is not possible to identify only those diagnosed with age related macular degeneration. The table below shows the number of finished admission episodes, for England, for the last five years, where the primary diagnosis was ‘degeneration of the macular and posterior pole’. This would include age related macular degeneration, as well as other conditions.


Age group

2009/10

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

0-4

4

2

2

3

2

5-9

7

1

2

7

3

10-14

12

6

9

8

8

15-19

19

9

18

10

11

20-24

29

43

32

21

36

25-29

52

51

29

33

47

30-34

66

61

42

57

56

35-39

120

95

73

101

100

40-44

182

162

156

162

229

45-49

218

256

254

319

377

50-54

432

417

439

477

636

55-59

841

980

812

973

1,216

60-64

2,096

2,617

2,589

2,647

2,833

65-69

3,907

4,740

5,153

5,982

6,427

70-74

6,843

8,685

8,937

9,770

9,847

75-79

10,697

12,998

14,051

15,347

14,506

80-84

12,934

16,568

17,083

18,765

17,747

85-89

10,695

13,114

13,960

15,550

14,262

90+

3,258

5,382

6,179

7,320

7,318

Unknown

6

8

6

7

11

TOTAL

52,418

66,195

69,826

77,559

75,672

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre

Note:

A finished admission episode is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider.


Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the same period.

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