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Dept of Health

Answer

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many victims have been treated for gunshot wounds in UK hospitals in each of the last five years. [196005] Ms Rosie Winterton: Information on the number of patients admitted to hospital in England as a result of gunshot injuries in the last five years is shown in the table. Information is not collected centrally on the number of patients treated in accident and emergency but not admitted. The information covers England only. Injuries from gunshots--primary diagnosis (ICD-10 SOO--T98) injury. Cause code (ICD-10 W32--W34)--discharge from firearm. Count of finished admission episodes--national health service hospitals, England 1998-99 to 2002-03 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Admissions 1998-99 134 1999-2000 117 2000-01 102 2001-02 155 2002-03 129 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within a year. 2. The cause code is a supplementary code that indicates the nature of any external cause of injury, poisoning or other adverse affects. 3. The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the hospital episode statistics data set and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

196005; 426 c534W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Firearms Injuries

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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