Cannabis: Misuse

(asked on 1st May 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of admissions to hospital for cannabis use in the last five years.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 9th May 2024

The following table shows the number of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis recorded for cannabis use, in each of the last five years:

Year

Hospital admissions

2022/23

189

2021/22

354

2020/21

508

2019/20

367

2018/19

375

Source: NHS England publishes information on hospital admissions, which is available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity

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