Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 68752

Opioids: Overdoses

Tabled: 17 July 2025
Answered: 23 July 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people across the UK have been hospitalised for opioid overdoses.

Answer

Karin Smyth
NHS England publishes data on hospital admissions and related diagnosis information, including finished admission episodes due to opioid overdoses.The total number of finished admission episodes in England relating to opium, heroin, or other opioids in 20...
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