Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 42343

Hospitals: Children

Tabled: 28 March 2025

Answered: 3 April 2025

Named Day

Question

Chris Hinchliff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children were admitted into NHS care for more than seven days in the latest period for which data is available.

Answer

Karin Smyth

NHS England collects data on patient discharge episodes, including for children. Discharge data does not represent the number of individual children with a hospital stay, as a child may have more than one discharge from hospital within the reporting perio...

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