Malnutrition: Children
(asked on 19th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many recorded diagnoses of malnutrition occurred among children in England in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021, and (4) 2022.
NHS England has provided a count of Finished Admission Episodes, for patients aged 0-17, by year of admission, with a “primary” or “primary or secondary” diagnosis of malnutrition for the years 2019 to 2022. The following table shows activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS-commissioned activity in the independent sector:
Year | Primary Diagnosis | Primary or Secondary Diagnosis |
2019 | 38 | 406 |
2020 | 47 | 332 |
2021 | 39 | 320 |
2022 (provisional) | 52 | 303 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS England