Hospitals: Admissions
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people aged between (a) 60 and 70, (b) 70 and 80, (c) 80 and 90 and (d) 90 and 100 were admitted to hospital in (i) England and (ii) Surrey in 2024.
Answered by Karin Smyth
NHS England publishes data on hospital admissions, which is available at the following link:
To show admission data by age, finished consultant episodes (FCEs) have been used as a proxy for the number of admissions.
The information requested for Surrey is collected at integrated care board (ICB) level. Therefore, the total number of FCEs in Surrey was generated by adding the FCEs of the two Surrey ICBs, namely Frimley and Surrey Heartlands.
The following table shows the number of hospital FCEs for each category for 2024/25 as the information is not available for the calendar year:
Age bands | England | NHS FRIMLEY ICB | NHS SURREY HEARTLANDS ICB | Surrey ICBs Total |
60-69 | 3,456,537 | 33,870 | 56,865 | 90,735 |
70-79 | 4,190,011 | 41,980 | 72,905 | 114,885 |
80-89 | 3,126,025 | 34,655 | 61,565 | 96,220 |
90 and over | 809,545 | 9,795 | 18,750 | 28,545 |
Source: NHS England Digital
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