Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital admissions there were for malnutrition in (a) Preston and (b) other local authority areas in Lancashire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Cheshire in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013.

The information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the number of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of malnutrition by clinical commissioning group (CCG) of treatment for the Preston and Cumbria areas, and by NHS England Area Team of treatment for the Lancashire, Greater Manchester, and Cheshire areas, for the financial years 2010-11, 2011-12, and 2012-13.

‡ Lancashire Area Team includes Preston CCG within its geographical boundary.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre

Notes:

1. To protect patient confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been replaced with “*” (an asterisk).
2. A finished admission episode (FAE) is the first period of inpatient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of inpatients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.
3. ICD-10 codes used to identify admissions due to malnutrition:

E40.X - Kwashiorkor

E41.X - Nutritional marasmus

E42.X - Marasmic kwashiorkor

E43.X - Unspecified severe protein-energy malnutrition

E44.0 - Moderate protein-energy malnutrition

E44.1 - Mild protein-energy malnutrition

E45.X - Retarded development following protein-energy malnutrition

E46.X - Unspecified protein-energy malnutrition

O25.X - Malnutrition in pregnancy