Sir David Amess
Conservative, Southend West
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been admitted to hospital as a consequence of an allergic reaction to food in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.
Ann Keen
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Health Services), Department of Health
The following table provides data from the NHS Information Centre on finished admission episodes in 1997-98 to 2007-08 where the primary diagnosis is specific to food allergies.
| Count of admissions to hospital where the primary diagnosis is specific to food allergies in 1997-98 to 2007-08, activity in English NHS hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector | |
| Finished admission episodes | |
| 2007-08 | 3,728 |
| 2006-07 | 3,538 |
| 2005-06 | 3,078 |
| 2004-05 | 2,594 |
| 2003-04 | 2,390 |
| 2002-03 | 2,168 |
| 2001-02 | 2,072 |
| 2000-01 | 2,079 |
| 1999-2000 | 2,046 |
| 1998-99 | 1,688 |
| 1997-98 | 1,646 |
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