§ Dr. TongeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the incidence of rickets in children. [136216]
§ Dr. LadymanHospital episode statistics indicate that the incidence of rickets in children is very uncommon, as the table shows.
Primary diagnosis (ICD-10 E55.0) vitamin D deficiency—Rickets, active1 Count Age on admission 0–17 years—count of finished admission episodes NHS hospitals, England 2001–02 57 1 Excludes—Rickets: coeliac, Crohn's,
inactive,
renal,
vitamin D resistant.
Notes
1. Admissions—Admissions are defined as the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.
2. Diagnosis (Primary Diagnosis)—The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002–03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital.
3. Grossing—Figures have not (yet) been adjusted for shortfalls in data (ie the data are ungrossed).
Source
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.