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Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Asked by Lisa SmartLiberal DemocratDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 28 April 2025UIN 46013

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital admissions were recorded for inflammatory bowel disease in the Hospital Episode Statistics dataset in (a) Hazel Grove constituency and (b) England in each of the last five years.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The following table shows the annual number of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis recorded for inflammatory bowel disease in England, in each of the last five years:

Year

Finished admission episodes

2023/24

358,063

2022/23

327,693

2021/22

308,528

2020/21

259,058

2019/20

282,335

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics.

Data on the number of admissions for the Hazel Grove constituency is not available.

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