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Written question asked by Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party) on Tuesday, 12 September 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 9 October 2017 (named day). It was answered by Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative) on Monday, 9 October 2017 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Anorexia

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many diagnosed cases of anorexia there have been among people aged under 30 in the last three years.

Answer

The information requested is shown in the table.

Count of finished admission episodes (FAEs)1 with a primary diagnosis2 of anorexia3 , where the patient age was under 30 years, 2013-14 to 2015-16.

Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector

Year

FAEs

2013-14

1,854

2014-15

1,832

2015-16

1,803

Notes:

1A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.

2Primary diagnosis

The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and 7 prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital.

3 International Classification of Diseases ICD-10 Codes

The following ICD-10 codes classify anorexia:

F50.0 Anorexia nervosa

F50.1 Atypical anorexia nervosa

Source: HES, NHS Digital

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
10053
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Anorexia
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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