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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Injuries: Accident and Emergency Departments (6 November 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted via accident and emergency with a primary diagnosis of contusion or abrasion in each month of the last seven financial years.

Asked by:
Mike Kane (Labour)

Answer

A count of unplanned accident and emergency (A&E) attendances1 that resulted in a hospital admission2, for primary diagnoses of 'contusion/abrasion'3, by month, 2010-11 and 2016-174 is provided in the table below.

This is a count of hospital attendances resulting in admissions, not individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into a National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion.

Month

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

April

1,284

1,661

1,114

992

1,688

1,159

1,201

May

1,247

1,609

1,204

1,074

1,794

1,180

1,377

June

1,192

1,574

1,112

1,110

1,754

1,310

1,333

July

1,190

1,623

1,189

1,204

1,867

1,296

1,395

August

1,285

1,458

1,159

1,231

1,751

1,263

1,470

September

1,136

1,383

1,211

1,124

1,766

1,286

1,410

October

1,060

1,328

1,083

1,062

1,732

1,160

1,448

November

1,024

1,189

1,042

1,106

1,730

1,189

1,292

December

1,218

1,117

1,052

1,148

1,668

1,211

1,444

January

1,208

1,006

926

1,112

1,542

1,177

1,343

February

1,132

1,010

903

1,742

1,502

1,143

1,130

March

1,356

1,220

976

1,904

1,755

1,145

1,355

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

1 - The following attendance category codes identify unplanned A&E attendances:
1 = First Accident and Emergency attendance
3 = Follow-up Accident and Emergency attendance - unplanned
9 = Not known

2 - Attendance disposal 01 = Admitted to hospital bed / become a lodged patient of the same health care provider.

3 - A&E Diagnosis - Note that the recording of the diagnosis field within the A&E data set is not mandatory. It is not known to what extent changes over time are as a result of improvements in recording practice.

02 = Contrusion/abrasion

4 - HES figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care

Note that HES include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity occurring between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.


Answered by:
Philip Dunne (Conservative)
13 November 2017

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