Epilepsy
(asked on 27th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in each age group have been diagnosed with epilepsy in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 4th November 2015
Information concerning the number of people diagnosed with epilepsy on an annual basis is not collected. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence advises that epilepsy has been estimated to affect between 362,000 and 415,000 people in England and the incidence of epilepsy is estimated to be 50 per 100,000 per year.