Acquired Brain Injury

HC Deb 06 February 2001 vol 362 cc512-3W

Ms Blears

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been diagnosed with acquired brain injury in each of the last 20 years. [147964]

Mr. Denham

Information is available, on hospital admissions only, from 1989 onwards. There was a change in the way information was collected in 1995 so the data for the period 1989–90 to 1994–95 are not directly comparable with data for the subsequent period.

ICD-10 code and diagnosis	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000
S062 diffuse brain injury	928	843	937	831	988
S063 focal brain injury	378	378	420	484	404
S064 epidural haemorrhage	480	530	583	485	558
S065 traumatic subdural haemorrhage	1,741	1,853	1,995	2,032	2,139
S066 traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage	327	308	380	351	366
S067 intracranial injury with prolonged coma	28	15	18	13	21
S068 other intracranial injuries	544	601	727	591	635
S069 intracranial injury, unspecified	12,456	10,242	7,098	3,454	2,787
Total	23,226	20,036	16,529	11,942	10,860

Note:

The main diagnosis is the first of seven diagnosis fields in the HES data set, and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital

These data are adjusted for both coverage and unknown/invalid clinical data.