Malnutrition
(asked on 13th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for changes in the number of cases of malnutrition in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 16th July 2015
Data published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in 2014 showed an increase in the number of people admitted to hospital for malnutrition. This is likely to be due in part to better diagnosis by doctors, better collection of data and an increase in the ageing population.