PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hospitals: Admissions (9 March 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished admission episodes were carried out between May 2010 and the latest period for which figures are available; and how many such procedures were carried out in the equivalent period in the previous Parliament.

Asked by:
Mark Garnier (Conservative)

In the first four years of this Parliament, between 1 May 2010 and 31 March 2014, which is the latest period for which data is available, there were around 59 million finished admission episodes.

During the first four years of the previous Parliament (between 1 May 2005 and 31 March 2009), there were around 52 million finished admission episodes.

Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
12 March 2015