Visual Impairment
(asked on 23rd March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate was of (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma and (c) diabetic retinopathy per 100,000 population by age group in (i) 2013-14 and (ii) 2014-15 to date.
Data is not collected showing the rate of age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy per 100,000 population, by age group.
The following table provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows the rate of Finished Admission Episodes with a primary diagnosis of (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma and (c) diabetic retinopathy per 100,000 of population, by age group in England for 2013-14 and provisional data for April 2014-November 2014.
2013-14 | April 2014-November 14 (provisional) | |||||
Age Group | Age related | Glaucoma | Diabetic Retinopathy | Age related | Glaucoma | Diabetic Retinopathy |
0-4 | 0.1 | 11.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.6 | 0.0 |
5-9 | 0.1 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 2.7 | 0.0 |
10-14 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 0.0 |
15-19 | 0.3 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.7 |
20-24 | 1.0 | 3.3 | 4.8 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 3.4 |
25-29 | 1.3 | 3.9 | 10.3 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 7.1 |
30-34 | 1.5 | 5.6 | 13.2 | 0.9 | 3.9 | 10.2 |
35-39 | 2.9 | 9.3 | 14.8 | 1.5 | 5.1 | 11.2 |
40-44 | 5.9 | 14.6 | 20.8 | 2.2 | 7.8 | 15.9 |
45-49 | 9.6 | 22.0 | 30.4 | 6.4 | 14.9 | 23.3 |
50-54 | 17.4 | 31.6 | 45.1 | 10.7 | 20.8 | 34.2 |
55-59 | 38.6 | 46.7 | 58.5 | 27.8 | 31.9 | 46.5 |
60-64 | 95.9 | 72.3 | 69.9 | 64.2 | 47.5 | 55.2 |
65-69 | 219.9 | 101.2 | 72.5 | 154.0 | 69.6 | 60.5 |
70-74 | 466.5 | 147.9 | 77.0 | 331.3 | 100.6 | 65.9 |
75-79 | 830.2 | 189.2 | 72.5 | 596.0 | 127.6 | 64.4 |
80-84 | 1,362.5 | 203.7 | 57.9 | 942.9 | 138.7 | 52.5 |
85-89 | 1,809.6 | 183.8 | 34.0 | 1,281.0 | 119.5 | 35.4 |
90 and over | 1,623.6 | 109.5 | 11.5 | 1,239.8 | 69.3 | 13.5 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre
The data includes patients who were treated as inpatients or day cases (admitted patient care) but not patients who were treated as outpatients or in primary care. The rate of these diseases is likely to be much higher as some cases would not require a hospital admission.
It should be noted that this is not a count of people as the same person may have had an episode of care on more than one occasion within the same year.