Rights of Way (Hansard, 25 February 2002)

§ Alun Michael

Section 4 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 came into force on 30 January 2001. It requires the Countryside Agency (in England) and the Countryside Council for Wales to prepare maps of open country and registered common land for the purposes of the statutory right of access under that Act. The Countryside Agency has recently concluded consultation on draft maps for part of the south-east and lower north-west regions. A draft map for southern England is due to be issued in June this year. Further information about the Agency's mapping programme is contained on its website, at: www.countryside.gov.uk/access/mapping/.

Discharges from NHS hospitals in England where the patient's main diagnosis was malnutrition, 1995–96 to 1999–2000
	All discharges
Age	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000
0–4	1,131,637	1,111,261	1,131,555	1,126,564	1,107,961
10–14	520,258	504,506	515,462	511,176	506,246
15–44	3,611,179	3,542,691	3,607,351	3,670,575	3,659,975
45–64	2,093,679	2,111,733	2,228,626	2,366,588	2,434,419
65–74	1,377,965	1,368,162	1,432,555	1,489,842	1,527,800
75–84	1,151,994	1,178,939	1,247,991	1,309,570	1,353,941
85 and over	473,121	556,468	603,873	563,039	576,802
Not known	4,445	9,080	16,209	23,156	25,285
Total	10,364,278	10,382,840	10,783,622	11,060,510	11,192,429

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.
Data in this table are adjusted for both coverage and unknown/invalid data, except for 1998–99 and 1999–2000 which are not yet adjusted for.

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health