Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished hospital admission episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of fractures attributable to osteoporosis there were amongst (a) women under, (b) women over, (c) men under and (d) men over the age of 50 in 2013-14.

The following table provides a count of finished admission episodes where there was a primary or secondary diagnosis of fractures attributable to osteoporosis amongst men, women and genders not specified for the age groups requested for the period 2013-14.

Notes:

1. A finished consultant episode (FCE) is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.

2. The number of episodes where this diagnosis was recorded in any of the 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and 7 prior to 2002-03) primary and secondary diagnosis fields in a Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) record. Each episode is only counted once, even if the diagnosis is recorded in more than one diagnosis field of the record.

Source: Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) Health and Social Care Information Centre.