Armed Forces: Injuries

(asked on 27th February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military personnel reported non-freezing cold injuries in each year since 2018.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
This question was answered on 6th March 2024

The number of UK Armed Forces personnel with a record for a Non-Freezing Cold Injury (NFCI) in each year since 2018 is presented in the table below:

Year

Number

2018

406

2019

334

2020

263

2021

354

2022

302

2023

421

The data is compiled from the following medical, safety and casualty reporting systems to provide the most complete picture possible:

  1. Defence Medical Information Capability Programme
  2. MOD Health and Safety reporting systems
  3. Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre Notification of Casualty system
  4. Defence Patient Tracking System

These systems have been searched for coded information or text entries relating to NFCI: information entered as free text is not included.

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