Osteoporosis
(asked on 5th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many over 25s have been diagnosed with osteoporosis in the last three years.
This question was answered on 12th March 2024
The information is not collected in the format requested. However, the below table shows the number of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of osteoporosis, for patients aged 25 years old and over in England, for the years 2020/21 to 2022/23:
Year | FAEs |
2020/21 | 32,552 |
2021/22 | 43,391 |
2022/23 | 47,015 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics from NHS England.
Note: This data provides a proxy to show overall trends.