Hospitals: Admissions

(asked on 27th 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 people were admitted to an NHS hospital in England with a brain injury or related condition in 2017.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 7th March 2018

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

Notes:

  1. A FAE is the first period of inpatient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes.

  1. It is not possible to include information surrounding all brain related injuries due to the volume of conditions this could potentially include.
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