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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL13208, tabled on 29 January 2019

Question

Lord Chadlington
Conservative
Life peer
Lords

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.

Answer

Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Conservative
Life peer
Lords

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:

  1. A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider.
  2. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes.
  3. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.

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