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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dementia (14 December 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients with a diagnosis of dementia (a) attended A&E and (b) were admitted to hospital in each of the last three years.

Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

Answer


In the Hospital Episode Statistics data it is not possible to identify patients that attended accident and emergency with a diagnosis of dementia.


The Health and Social Care Information Centre have provided a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) where there was a primary diagnosis of dementia for the years 2012-13 to 2014-15. This is shown in Table A.


Note that this is not a count of people as the same person may have had more than one admission episode within the same time period.


Table A: Count of FAEs where there was a primary diagnosis of dementia for the years 2012-13 to 2014-15


Year

Sum of FAEs

2012-13

19,274

2013-14

17,939

2014-15

18,732


Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre





Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
17 December 2015

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