Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-02-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration in each of the last five years.
Alistair Burt
We do not have information on the numbers of people diagnosed with age related macular degeneration in each of the last five years.
What we do have is the number of finished admission episodes, for England, for the last five years, where the primary diagnosis was ‘degeneration of the macular and posterior pole’.
|
Age group |
2010/11 |
2011/12 |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
|
|
0-4 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
|
|
5-9 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
3 |
6 |
|
|
10-14 |
6 |
9 |
8 |
8 |
3 |
|
|
15-19 |
9 |
18 |
10 |
11 |
9 |
|
|
20-24 |
43 |
32 |
21 |
36 |
20 |
|
|
25-29 |
51 |
29 |
33 |
47 |
45 |
|
|
30-34 |
61 |
42 |
57 |
56 |
58 |
|
|
35-39 |
95 |
73 |
101 |
100 |
73 |
|
|
40-44 |
162 |
156 |
162 |
229 |
148 |
|
|
45-49 |
256 |
254 |
319 |
377 |
386 |
|
|
50-54 |
417 |
439 |
477 |
636 |
603 |
|
|
55-59 |
980 |
812 |
973 |
1,216 |
1,283 |
|
|
60-64 |
2,617 |
2,589 |
2,647 |
2,833 |
2,767 |
|
|
65-69 |
4,740 |
5,153 |
5,982 |
6,427 |
6,729 |
|
|
70-74 |
8,685 |
8,937 |
9,770 |
9,847 |
10,671 |
|
|
75-79 |
12,998 |
14,051 |
15,347 |
14,506 |
16,069 |
|
|
80-84 |
16,568 |
17,083 |
18,765 |
17,747 |
18,847 |
|
|
85-89 |
13,114 |
13,960 |
15,550 |
14,262 |
15,497 |
|
|
90+ |
5,382 |
6,179 |
7,320 |
7,318 |
8,580 |
|
|
Unknown |
8 |
6 |
7 |
11 |
18 |
|
|
TOTAL |
66,195 |
69,826 |
77,559 |
75,672 |
81,815 |
This would include age related macular degeneration, as well as other conditions. It also only relates to people admitted to hospital not those seen in outpatients or primary care.
Notes:
A finished admission episode is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider.
Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the same period.
