Hospitals: Children
(asked on 18th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of hospital stays of more than two months for children in each of the last three years for which records are available.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 26th July 2022
The following table shows the number of hospital stays where the duration was greater than 60 days for patients aged between 0 and 17 years old in each of the last three years where data is available. Data for 2021/22 is currently being collated and centrally validated.
2018/19 | 4,598 |
2019/20 | 4,562 |
2020/21 | 3,894 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
- Hospital Episode Statistics figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time should be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in National Health Service practice. The decrease in the number of hospital stays of more than two months for children for 2020/21 is due to the overall reduction in hospital activity in 2020/21.
- Hospital Episode Statistics include activity ending in the year in question from 1 April to 31 March 2013. A discharge episode is the last episode during a hospital stay (a spell), where the patient is discharged from the hospital or transferred to another hospital. Discharges do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one discharge from hospital within the period.