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Nervous System: Pain

Answer

The following table shows a breakdown of the Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) in England with a primary diagnosis relevant to nerve pain, as well as the total number and proportion of FAEs with a primary diagnosis relevant to nerve pain, for 2023/24:

Diagnosis	Admissions
Disorders of trigeminal nerve	3,005
Facial nerve disorders	5,405
Disorders of other cranial nerves	210
Cranial nerve disorders in diseases classified elsewhere	285
Nerve root and plexus disorders	1,660
Nerve root and plexus compressions in diseases classified elsewhere	10,510
Mononeuropathies of upper limb	47,290
Mononeuropathies of lower limb	4,225
Other mononeuropathies	1,770
Total FAEs with primary diagnosis relevant to nerve pain	74,365
Total 2023/24 FAEs	17,540,975
Proportion of admissions with primary diagnosis relevant to nerve pain	0.42%

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), published by NHS England

Notes:

- FAEs refer to the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider, and are generally counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes, so do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period;

- the primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 diagnosis fields in the HES data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital;

- the data is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have been made, as counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final data set; and

- all counts have been rounded to the nearest five and values less than 10 have been supressed.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

77

Session

2024-26

Subjects

Medical treatments Nervous system Pain

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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