Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 19 July 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of malnutrition there have been in each year since 2010.
NHS Digital has provided a count of finished admission episodes1 with a primary or secondary diagnosis2 of malnutrition3 for the years 2010-11 to 2016-174. This information is provided in the following table.
Activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector | |
Year | Malnutrition |
2010-11 | 4,657 |
2011-12 | 5,377 |
2012-13 | 5,499 |
2013-14 | 6,653 |
2014-15 | 7,348 |
2015-16 | 7,855 |
2016-17 | 8,417 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital
Notes:
Malnutrition:
E40 Kwashiorkor
E41 Nutritional marasmus
E42 Marasmic kwashiorkor
E43 Unspecified severe protein-energy malnutrition
E44 Protein-energy malnutrition of moderate and mild degree
E45 Retarded development following protein-energy malnutrition
E46 Unspecified protein-energy malnutrition
O25 Malnutrition in pregnancy
The presence of an ICD-10 code of malnutrition on the admission episode indicates that the patient was diagnosed with, and would therefore being treated for malnutrition during the episode of care. The cause of malnutrition is not presented here but may be due to dietary issues, an inability to absorb nutrients normally or another disease affecting the patient’s ability to feed normally.
It should be noted that HES include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity ending between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.
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