Obesity

(asked on 13th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many obesity-related hospital admissions there were in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 20th December 2023

Data for admissions related to obesity and hyperalimentation is only available from 2019 when it was first collected. The following table shows the number of these hospital admissions since 2019:

Year

Admissions

2022/2023

8,970

2021/2022

7,935

2020/2021

4,095

2019/2020

11,025

Source: NHS England

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