Henry Smith – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Henry Smith on 2015-09-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were admitted to hospital as an emergency case with acute retention of urine due to a blocked Foley catheter in the last three years.

Jane Ellison

The requested information is not available centrally as Hospital Episode Statistics cannot identify blocked catheters or the type of catheter in use.