Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
(asked on 26th April 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 have been diagnosed with foetal alcohol syndrome in each of the last seven years.
The Hospital Episode Statistics database contains counts of hospital episodes and attendances rather than people. The following table shows a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) in England with a primary or secondary diagnosis of foetal alcohol syndrome 2010-11 to 2016-17.
Year | FAEs |
2010-11 | 212 |
2011-12 | 270 |
2012-13 | 252 |
2013-14 | 272 |
2014-15 | 286 |
2015-16 | 349 |
2016-17 | 361 |
It should be noted that this should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted on one or more occasions.