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.
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