§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what statistics his Department collects concerning(a) (i) primary and (ii) contributory diagnosis relating to malnutrition and (b) the weight of patients on (1) admission and (2) discharge from hospital by age. [32624]
§ Yvette Cooper[holding answer 4 February 2002]: The Department collects information on in-patients as part of the hospital episodes statistics (HES) system, which contains details of patients admitted to and treated in 951W National Health Service hospitals in England. HES records contain up to seven diagnoses (coded to ICD10 where malnutrition is E40 to E46). The first of these is the main reason that the patient was in hospital; any
Admissions to NHS hospitals in England where the patient's main diagnosis was malnutrition Age 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 0–4 11 11 12 5 10 17 10–14 7 14 12 15 6 5 15–44 53 65 57 72 54 33 45–64 56 45 65 63 63 47 65–74 38 28 30 43 28 35 75–84 45 43 42 38 41 33 85 and over 35 27 31 22 24 27 Not Known 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 245 234 249 258 226 197 Note:
Admissions are defined as the first period of patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. Figures have not yet been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data is ungrossed).
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.