Rickets: Carnforth
(asked on 18th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has received any reports of rickets in the Carnforth area in the last five years.
Information is not held in the format requested. The information available is shown in the table below. This shows a count of finished consultant episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of rickets, for the Lancashire Area Team of treatment, for the financial years between 2012/13 and 2016/17. The Lancashire Area Team of treatment includes the Carnforth area. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care in the same year.
Financial year | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Lancashire Area Team of Treatment | 10 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital