Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have accessed NHS accident and emergency services with Type 2 diabetes symptoms in each of the last five years.

This data is not held in the format requested.

The following table shows the number of unplanned attendances at accident and emergency (A&E) departments in each of the last five years where a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes has been recorded and the age of the patient on attendance was between 0 and 18 years old. However, this does not represent the number of patients, as an individual may attend A&E on more than one occasion in any given period.

Year Attendances

2017/18 12

2018/19 45

2019/20 58

2020/21 67

2021/22 92

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS), NHS Digital

Notes:

1. Activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.

2. ECDS is a very young data set and 2017/18 was the first year that any data was collected. As such there were known issues with some providers being unable to submit data to the ECDS and with the quality of the data which was submitted. Therefore, the increase in numbers seen from 2017/18 to 2020/21 should be interpreted in the context of these improvements in data completeness and data quality.