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Malnutrition

Volume 448: debated on Thursday 6 July 2006

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Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what percentage of people (a) admitted to and (b) discharged from hospital were malnourished in the last year in which figures are available, broken down by age; and if she will make a statement. (81699)

Caroline Flint

Information on the numbers admitted and discharged is shown in the following table.

Count of finished in-year admission episodes and in-year discharges where the patient’s main diagnosis was malnutrition, national health service hospitals in England, 2004-05

Age

Malnutrition admissions

All admissions

Malnutrition admissions per 100,000

Malnutrition discharges

All discharges

Malnutrition discharges per 100,000

0 to 4

11

1,143,564

1.0

12

1,153,098

1.0

5 to 14

1

498,026

0.2

1

500,749

0.2

15 to 44

54

3,829,687

1.4

51

3,876,699

1.3

45 to 64

83

2,624,028

3.2

82

2,664,605

3.1

65 to 74

36

1,649,737

2.2

39

1,680,332

2.3

75 to 84

36

1,581,687

2.3

40

1,621,794

2.5

85 and over

31

635,257

4.9

35

656,778

5.3

Not known

—

26,458

—

—

26,619

—

Total

252

11,988,444

2.1

260

12,180,674

2.1