Malnutrition

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—
¹No data available.

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009