HC Deb 10 May 2004 vol 421 cc168-71W
Sandra Gidley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many elderly people were diagnosed as suffering from malnutrition(a) in total and (b) broken down by health authority, in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [166009]

Miss Melanie Johnson

In the NHS Plan (2000) the Government made a commitment to reduce under nutrition by developing a hospital nutrition policy to improve the outcome of care of patients by 2004. A number of measures and strategies are in place to manage, monitor and screen patients for under nutrition in hospitals, residential care and the wider community. Nutritional screening is recommended for the care of specific groups, such as those outlined in the national service framework for older people (2001).

Health authority of residence 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03
QA2 Hillingdon HA 1
QA3 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster HA 3 1 1 1
QA4 Enfield and Haringey HA 1 2 2
QA5 Redbridge and Waltham Forest HA 1 1 2 1
QA6 Bedfordshire HA 1 5 1 3 1
QA7 Berkshire HA 1
QA8 Buckinghamshire HA 1 1 1
QA9 Cambridge and Huntingdon HA 4
QAA Bexley and Greenwich HA 1
QAC Bromley HA 1
QAD Croydon HA 1 2
QAE East Kent HA 4 3 3 3
QAF West Kent HA 1 1 3 1
QAG Kingston and Richmond HA 1 2 5
QAH Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham HA 1 8 2 6 1
QAJ Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth HA 1 2 2 1
QAK East Surrey HA 2 1 2 6
QAL West Surrey HA 3 4
QAM East Sussex, Brighton and Hove HA 5 4 2 4 5
QAN West Sussex HA 1 1 2 2 2
QAP Barking and Havering HA 4 3 2 1
QAQ Barnet HA 1 2
QAR Brent and Harrow HA 1
QAT Camden and Islington HA 1 1 2 2 2
QAV Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow HA 2 1 4 2 1
QAW East London and The City HA 2 3 2 2 2
QAX North Essex HA 3 1 3
DAY South Essex HA 2 3 1 1
QC1 South Lancashire HA 4
QC2 Liverpool HA 1
QC3 Manchester HA 1 1 1 4 1
QC4 Morecambe Bay HA 1 2 1
QC5 St. Helens and Knowsley HA 1 1 1
QC6 Salford and Trafford HA 1 2 1 1
QC7 Sefton HA 1
QC8 Stockport HA 2
QC9 West Pennine HA 3 1 1
QCA East Norfolk HA 1
QCC Northamptonshire HA 1 1
QCD North West Anglia HA 1
QCE Oxfordshire HA 1 1 1 1 3 4
QCF Suffolk HA 1 3 4 3 2 1
QCG Barnsley HA 1
QCH North Derbyshire HA 1 1
QCJ South Derbyshire HA 1 2 2 1
QCK Doncaster HA 1 1 1
QCL Leicestershire HA 2 2 2 2 3 4
QCM Lincolnshire HA 1 3
QCN North Nottinghamshire HA 1 1 5
QCP Nottingham HA 2 1 6 6 2
QCQ Rotherham HA 1 1
OCR Sheffield HA 1 1 1
QCT Bury and Rochdale HA 2 1 1 1
QCV North Cheshire HA 1 1
QCW South Cheshire HA 1 2 1
QCX East Lancashire HA 1 1 1 4 1
QCY North-West Lancashire HA 1 4 2 1 1 3
QD1 North and Mid Hampshire HA 1 3 1
QD2 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire HA 1 1
QD3 Southampton and South West Hampshire HA 1 3 2 2 1 3
QD4 Isle of Wight HA 1
QD5 Somerset HA 1 4 1 3
QD6 South and West Devon HA 1 2 4 3 3
QD7 Wiltshire HA 1 2 1 1
QD8 Avon HA 2 1 4 1

Data from Hospital Episode Statistics showing the count of finished admission episodes to hospitals in England from 1997–98 to 2002–03 by the health authority of residence for malnutrition, where the primary diagnosis is malnutrition and the age on admission was 65 plus, are shown in the table.

Health authority of residence 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03
QD9 Birmingham HA 2 5 2 2 1 4
QDA Wigan and Bolton HA 1 4
QDC Wirral HA 1 1
ODD Bradford HA 1 1
QDE County Durham and Darlington HA 4 2 1 1 2
QDF East Riding HA 2 1 3 2 1
QDG Gateshead and South Tyneside HA 1 2 1 1 3 1
QDH Leeds HA 7 4 1 1
QDJ Newcastle and North Tyneside HA 1 2 1 3
QDK North Cumbria HA 1
QDL South Humber HA 1 1 1
QDM Northumberland HA 2 4 1 1
QDN Sunderland HA 1 1 1
QDP Tees HA 3 1 2
QDQ Wakefield HA 2 1 1
QDR North Yorkshire HA 1 1 4 2
QDT Calderdale and Kirklees HA 2 2 1
QDV Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HA 2 2 1 3
QDW Dorset HA 2 2
QDX North and East Devon HA 1 1 2
QDY Gloucestershire HA 2 3
QEA Coventry HA 1 2 2
QEC Dudley HA 6 1 1 2 2
QEE Sandwell HA 4 1 1
QEF Shropshire HA 2 1 1 1
QEG Solihull HA 1 1
QEH North Staffordshire HA 3 5 1 3 1
QEJ South Staffordshire HA 2 2 1
QEK Walsall HA 1
QEL Warwickshire HA 2 4 3 1
OEM Wolverhampton HA 4 1
QEN Worcestershire HA 2 1 1
QEQ West Hertfordshire HA 1 1 2 1
QER Cambridgeshire HA 1 2 5 3
QET Norfolk HA 4 4 4 5
QEV Isle of Wight Portsmouth and Southampton HA 1 3
QEW Barnet Enfield and Haringey HA 2 1
QEX Hertfordshire HA 1
QEY Bexley Bromley and Greenwich HA 2 1
W Wales 1
Y Not known 3 1
Grand total 102 111 96 105 128 112