Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 60247

Hospitals: Children

Tabled: 16 June 2025

Answered: 20 June 2025

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Question

Chris Hinchliff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children aged between 28 days and 17 years old were admitted to NHS care for more than seven days in the latest period for which data is available.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

NHS England collects the data on patient discharge episodes, including for children, through the Hospital Episode Statistics. Discharge data does not represent the number of individual children with a hospital stay, as a child may have more than one disch...

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