To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 1 October 2018 (HL10396), what was the breakdown by gender of gambling addiction-related hospital admissions in each of the last five years.
Answered on
12 February 2019
NHS Digital’s Hospital Episode Statistics collects the volume of finished admissions episodes (FAEs) with a primary or secondary diagnosis of pathological/compulsive gambling and volumes for the last five years, broken down by gender is shown in the following table.
Year | Male | Female |
2013-14 | 54 | 11 |
2014-15 | 79 | 10 |
2015-16 | 70 | 16 |
2016-17 | 57 | 15 |
2017-18 | 92 | 15 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
Notes:
- A 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.
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Department of Health and Social Care