Hospitals: Admissions

(asked on 12th December 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Preet Kaur Gill Portrait
Preet Kaur Gill
(Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of hospital admissions there were for (a) rickets, (b) tuberculosis, (c) renal tubular acidosis type 1 and (d) malnutrition in age groups (i) 0-4, (ii) 5-9, (iii) 10-16 and (iv) over 17 years in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 10th January 2024

The information requested on admissions for renal tubular acidosis type 1 is not held centrally.

The following table shows the number of hospital admissions across the requested age groups for rickets since 2013/14:

Year

Age 0-4

Age 5-9

Age 10-16

Age 17+

Total

2022/23

35

4

2

2

43

2021/22

43

8

3

1

55

2020/21

43

1

8

0

52

2019/20

33

1

7

6

47

2018/19

40

18

9

2

69

2017/18

33

6

6

1

46

2016/17

39

5

7

8

59

2015/16

34

3

7

5

49

2014/15

28

12

6

4

50

2013/14

35

0

2

8

45

Total

363

58

57

37

515

Source: Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity

The following table shows the number of hospital admissions across the requested age groups for tuberculosis since 2013/14:

Year

Age 0-4

Age 5-9

Age 10-16

Age 17+

Total

2022/23

67

56

169

4,695

4,987

2021/22

71

22

123

4,564

4,780

2020/21

64

20

92

3,930

4,106

2019/20

65

27

146

4,585

4,823

2018/19

81

27

136

4,339

4,583

2017/18

90

28

190

4,655

4,963

2016/17

84

85

187

5,348

5,704

2015/16

76

73

149

5,066

5,364

2014/15

64

43

138

5,193

5,438

2013/14

133

36

175

6,021

6,365

Total

795

417

1,505

48,396

51,113

Source: Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity

The following table shows the number of hospital admissions across the requested age groups for malnutrition since 2019/20, the earliest period for which data is available:

Year

Age 0-4

Age 5-9

Age 10-16

Age 17+

Total

2022/23

15

9

39

2,459

2,522

2021/22

14

17

16

2,454

2,501

2020/21

17

7

17

2,203

2,244

2019/20

17

2

21

2,265

2,305

Total

63

35

93

9,381

9,572

Source: Hospital Patient Care Activity

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