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Malnutrition

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) patients and (b) children under 10 years old were admitted to hospital in each (i) region outside London and (ii) primary care trust area inside London as a result of malnutrition in each of the last five years. (265579)

The total admissions to hospital where there was a primary diagnosis of malnutrition broken down by strategic health authority (SHA) of treatment from 2003-04 to 2007-08 are shown in the following tables.

Activity in English national health service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector

Admissions where there was a primary diagnosis of malnutrition

2007-08

2006-07

Total (England)

391

362

Q30

North East Strategic Health Authority

18

27

Q31

North West Strategic Health Authority

50

36

Q32

Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority

39

45

Q33

East Midlands Strategic Health Authority

31

34

Q34

West Midlands Strategic Health Authority

59

56

Q35

East of England Strategic Health Authority

33

32

Q36

London Strategic Health Authority

52

45

Q37

South East Coast Strategic Health Authority

25

19

Q38

South Central Strategic Health Authority

36

27

Q39

South West Strategic Health Authority

48

41

Total admissions to hospital where there was a primary diagnosis of malnutrition broken down by strategic health authority (SHA) of treatment in 2005-06 to 2003-04: Activity in English NHS hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector

Admissions where there was a primary diagnosis of malnutrition

2005-06

2004-05

2003-04

Total (England)

304

261

256

Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic HA

14

12

9

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Strategic HA

*

*

*

Essex Strategic HA

10

8

*

North West London Strategic HA

11

7

7

North Central London Strategic HA

7

6

*

North East London Strategic HA

11

13

8

South East London Strategic HA

12

*

16

South West London Strategic HA

*

14

6

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Strategic HA

11

7

10

County Durham and Tees Valley Strategic HA

9

6

*

North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Strategic HA

*

*

8

West Yorkshire Strategic HA

9

6

7

Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic HA

9

9

9

Greater Manchester Strategic HA

12

14

20

Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic HA

16

9

18

Thames Valley Strategic HA

16

11

9

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic HA

10

18

10

Kent and Medway Strategic HA

*

*

10

Surrey and Sussex Strategic HA

13

13

7

Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic HA

15

9

22

South West Peninsula Strategic HA

22

21

12

Dorset and Somerset Strategic HA

*

7

8

South Yorkshire Strategic HA

11

8

7

Trent Strategic HA

14

9

9

Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Strategic HA

10

*

*

Shropshire and Staffordshire Strategic HA

6

19

8

Birmingham and the Black Country Strategic HA

31

18

14

West Midlands South Strategic HA

8

*

*

Total admissions to hospital where there was a primary diagnosis of malnutrition broken down by age group from 2003-04 to 2007-08: Activity in English NHS hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector

Admissions where there was a primary diagnosis of malnutrition

Under 10

10 and over

Unknown

2007-08

25

366

1

2006-07

19

342

1

2005-06

15

289

1

2004-05

12

249

1

2003-04

14

242

1

1 No data available.