WH Smith: Post Offices

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Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children have been treated in hospital for (a) burns from hair straighteners and (b) injuries from trampolines in each year since 2010.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 14th May 2014

Information on inpatients admitted to hospitals and on patients attending accident and emergency departments in England is collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) database. Patients with injuries due to hair straighteners and trampolines will be included in HES, but the information collected centrally is insufficiently detailed for these cases to be identified as a separate category.

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