Strokes: Hospitals
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends of hospital admissions of those with stroke symptoms in the last 5 years.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The following table shows the trend in stroke admissions for the last five years:
Year | Stroke admissions incidence | Stroke admissions rate per 100,000 population |
2020/21 | 89,739 | 166.3 |
2021/22 | 93,710 | 171.4 |
2022/23 | 93,753 | 168.4 |
2023/24 | 97,843 | 173.1 |
2024/25 | 99,494 | 172.7 |
Source: Fingertips, available at the following link:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/stroke%20admissions#page/4/gid/1/pat/159/par/K02000001/ati/15/are/E92000001/iid/90986/age/1/sex/4/cat/-1/ctp/-1/yrr/1/cid/4/tbm/1
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