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Accident and Emergency Departments: Admissions

Volume 481: debated on Tuesday 28 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of patients required emergency readmissions within 28 days of emergency admission to hospital in each of the last five years. (228986)

The information is not available in the format requested. The information that is available (from the National Centre for Health Outcomes Development (NCHOD) is provided for three different age groups.

Percentage of emergency readmission to any hospital in England occurring within 28 days of discharge from hospital

Age group

Ages 0-15

Ages 16-74

Ages 75 plus

2006-07

9.08

8.82

13.82

2005-06

8.90

8.51

13.63

2004-05

8.58

8.14

13.05

2003-04

8.25

7.73

12.19

2002-03

8.29

7.39

11.60

Note:

Indirectly age, sex, method of admission of discharge spell, diagnosis (ICD 10 chapter/selected sub-chapters within medical specialties) and procedure (OPCS 4 chapter/selected sub-chapters within surgical specialties) standardised rates. Standardised to persons 2002-03.

Source:

Compendium of Clinical and Health Indicators/Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base

www.nchod.nhs.uk

or

www.nchod.nhs.uk

released October 2008.