Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 28366
Malnutrition: Older People
Tabled: 3 February 2025
Answered: 18 February 2025
Question
Chris Ward
Labour — Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the NHS of providing treatment for malnutrition to people over 65-years old in Sussex in the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years.
Answer
Ashley DaltonIn the United Kingdom, the primary causes of malnutrition are clinical, rather than it solely being caused by poor or inadequate dietary intake. Most cases of clinical malnutrition will be secondary to another health condition which may impact on nutritio...
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