HC Deb 23 March 2001 vol 365 cc375-6W
Mr. Gareth R. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) fatal accidents and (b) accidents requiring an overnight hospital stay there have been in each of the last 10 years. [152602]

Ms Stuart

The number of deaths resulting from fatal accidents in England for 1989 to 1999 is shown in the table.

Year of registration Number of deaths
1989 10,672
1990 10,880
1991 10,193
1992 9,644
1993 9,608
1994 9,628
1995 9,372
1996 9,643
1997 10,157
1998 9,774
1999 9,970

The number of accidents requiring an overnight hospital stay of one night or more in a National Health Service hospital in England for 1990–91 to 1999–2000 is shown in the table.

Number of admissions
1990–91 578,065
1991–92 582,474

1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–011
Ambulance Services 0.40
Antibiotics 0.17
Blood donation 0.38 0.60 1.70 20.22
Children's services 0.60
Drugs 0.34
Flu 0.23
Maternity 0.10
National Health Service including nurse recruitment 1.43 1.30 4.90 4.21 4.90
NHS Direct 0.12 0.78 1.20 1.15
Organ donation 0.77 0.47 0.49
Prescription fraud 0.38 1.40
Sexwise/teenage pregnancy 0.39 1.01
Smoking 36.18 8.66
Travel safe 0.85
Walk-in centres 0.30
Winter 1.07 2.35
1Planned
2The Department's spend on blood donation advertising reduced in 1999–2000 because most of this activity was funded directly by the National Blood Authority, who took over full responsibility for this expenditure on 1 April 2000.
3Prior to 1999–2000 advertising on smoking was undertaken by the health education authority (HEA).

Number of admissions
1992–93 601,465
1993–94 611,502
1994–95 624,533
1995–96 400,371
1996–97 458,632
1997–98 462,211
1998–99 445,152
1999–2000 459,034

Note:

Changes in diagnosis coding from 1995–96 mean that data are not directly comparable over the 10 years from 1990–91 to 1999–2000