Armed Forces: Health
(asked on 30th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2022 to Question 90747 on Armed Forces: Health, if he will provide a breakdown of the reasons for which the 14,763 personnel are classed as Medically Non Deployable as of 1 April 2022.
At 1 April 2022, the top two causes of medical downgrading among Medically Non Deployable personnel were musculoskeletal disorders and injuries (42%) and mental and behavioural disorders (25%).
The following table provides the number and percentages of UK Armed Forces personnel Medically Non Deployable by principal cause group, numbers and percentages as of 1 April 2022.
| Number | % |
All Medically Non Deployable | 14,763 |
|
All ICD-10 coded medically downgraded | 14,053 | 100 |
Infectious and parasitic diseases | 183 | 1 |
Neoplasms | 257 | 2 |
Blood disorders | 50 |
|
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 233 | 2 |
Mental and behavioural disorders | 3,530 | 25 |
Nervous system disorders | 263 | 2 |
Eye and adnexa diseases | 105 |
|
Ear and mastoid process diseases | 361 | 3 |
Circulatory system disorders | 400 | 3 |
Respiratory system disorders | 114 |
|
Digestive system disorders | 407 | 3 |
Skin and subcutaneous tissue diseases | 202 | 1 |
Musculoskeletal disorders and Injuries | 5,924 | 42 |
Genitourinary system diseases | 141 | 1 |
Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | ~ |
|
Other disorders originating in the perinatal period | 0 | - |
Congenital malformations | 32 |
|
Clinical and laboratory findings | 688 | 5 |
External causes of morbidity | ~ |
|
Factors influencing health status | 1,145 | 8 |
Electronic medical record description not codable in ICD-10 | 200 |
|
No cause information held on electronic medical record | 510 |
|
The figures provided are for full time trained (Royal Navy and RAF), trade trained (Army) and serving against requirement personnel in service. This includes Reserve Forces personnel filling Regular posts whilst serving on Full Time Reserve Service. The figures do not include other Reserve, civilian, foreign service or non-UK military personnel.
The figures have been grouped as per the chapters of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems Tenth Revision (ICD-10).
Where stated ‘Electronic medical record description not codable in ICD-10’, the principal cause of downgrading provided in the electronic medical record could not be matched to ICD-10.
Where stated ‘No cause information held on electronic medical record’, no medical downgrading information was available from the Defence Medical Information Capability Programme.
In line with Joint Service Publication 200 on statistical disclosure, figures fewer than five have been suppressed.