Derek Twigg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-07-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) people and (b) children are being treated for Lyme disease in (a) Halton constituency and (b) Merseyside.

Nicola Blackwood

Most cases of Lyme disease are treated in primary care by a course of antibiotics. Only the most severe cases require hospitalisation and appear in the Hospital Episode Statistic (HES) series. Data for those treated in primary care is not collected centrally.

Data from HES for admissions for adults and children where there is a primary diagnosis of Lyme disease are:

Halton Constituency of residence – 0

Halton Clinical Commissioning Group of residence – 0

Merseyside – 0