Heidi Alexander – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Heidi Alexander on 2015-12-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged 65 and over suffered a hip fracture as a result of a fall in each year since 2009-10.
Alistair Burt
The information is not available in the request format.
Data within the Hospital Episode Statistics database is not recorded at patient level i.e. we are unable to provide a count of how many people suffered a hip fracture as required as the data relates to admissions. It is possible for a single person to have more than one admission in any given time period.
Admissions data with a primary diagnosis of hip fracture, and where there was an external cause of fall, for patients aged 65 and over is below:
|
Year |
Finished admission episodes |
|
2009-10 |
36,006 |
|
2010-11 |
35,734 |
|
2011-12 |
35,826 |
|
2012-13 |
35,669 |
|
2013-14 |
37,310 |
|
2014-15 |
36,993 |
Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre, Hospital Episode Statistics
