NHS Trusts: Food Poisoning
(asked on 26th February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many notifiable cases of food poisoning there have been by NHS trust in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 6th March 2018
Clinicians are required to formally notify cases of suspected food poisoning to Public Health England under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010.
The total number of formally notified cases of food poisoning in England and Wales between 2015 and 2017 was 40,076. Of these, 15,599 were reported in 2015, 13,064 in 2016 and 11,413 in 2017.
Data are not collected in the format requested.