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
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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