Jamie Reed – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2015-10-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been admitted to hospital with malnutrition in each of the last five years.
Jane Ellison
The information is not available in the format requested, however the Health and Social Care Information Centre has provided a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs)1 with a primary diagnosis2 of malnutrition in England for 2009-10 to 2013-14.
Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period. This information is provided in the following table:
|
Year |
FAEs |
|
2009-10 |
465 |
|
2010-11 |
531 |
|
2011-12 |
652 |
|
2012-13 |
667 |
|
2013-14 |
621 |
Notes:
1 An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes.
2 The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital.
