Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were admitted to an NHS hospital in England with a brain injury or related condition in 2017.
Information is shown in the following table which is a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs), with a primary diagnosis of brain injury, for National Health Service Hospitals within England, for the 2016-17 financial year.
This is a count of hospital episodes, not individual patients, as the same person may have been admitted into an NHS hospital on more than one occasion.
Diagnosis Description | Hospital admissions 2016-17 |
Concussion | 2,318 |
Traumatic cerebral oedema | 76 |
Diffuse brain injury | 2,410 |
Focal brain injury | 1,277 |
Epidural haemorrhage | 1,072 |
Traumatic subdural haemorrhage | 11,966 |
Traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage | 4,801 |
Intracranial injury with prolonged coma | 5 |
Other intracranial injuries | 1,845 |
Intracranial injury, unspecified | 386 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
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