Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-09-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people by age have been diagnosed with sepsis in the last five years.
Mr Philip Dunne
Public Health England does not hold data in the format requested.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is able to provide a count of the number of Finished Discharge Episodes (FDEs) with a primary or secondary diagnosis of sepsis, split by age band for providers in England for the years between 2010-11 and 2014-15.
Information is not held centrally on patients diagnosed in the primary care setting.
Table 1: A count of the number of FDEs with a primary or secondary diagnosis of sepsis, by age band for providers in England for the years between 2010-11 and 2014-15.
|
Age Bands |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
|
0-4 |
18,417 |
20,080 |
22,915 |
23,840 |
26,725 |
|
5-9 |
577 |
648 |
790 |
853 |
1,010 |
|
10-14 |
446 |
415 |
523 |
461 |
635 |
|
15-19 |
814 |
778 |
926 |
980 |
1,094 |
|
20-24 |
1,220 |
1,246 |
1,490 |
1,770 |
1,899 |
|
25-29 |
1,373 |
1,499 |
1,843 |
2,032 |
2,478 |
|
30-34 |
1,510 |
1,701 |
2,142 |
2,540 |
2,924 |
|
35-39 |
1,697 |
1,849 |
2,230 |
2,319 |
2,601 |
|
40-44 |
2,213 |
2,403 |
2,711 |
2,988 |
3,223 |
|
45-49 |
2,775 |
3,123 |
3,661 |
3,937 |
4,385 |
|
50-54 |
3,462 |
3,890 |
4,459 |
4,942 |
5,702 |
|
55-59 |
4,130 |
4,829 |
5,694 |
6,115 |
6,826 |
|
60-64 |
6,162 |
6,835 |
7,592 |
7,893 |
8,706 |
|
65-69 |
6,624 |
7,790 |
9,619 |
10,805 |
12,079 |
|
70-74 |
7,766 |
8,667 |
9,623 |
10,458 |
12,066 |
|
75-79 |
8,955 |
9,815 |
10,654 |
11,793 |
13,862 |
|
80-84 |
9,427 |
10,079 |
11,009 |
11,584 |
13,789 |
|
85-89 |
8,340 |
8,756 |
9,088 |
9,739 |
11,876 |
|
90+ |
5,553 |
6,054 |
6,740 |
7,156 |
9,173 |
|
Unknown |
420 |
558 |
576 |
617 |
719 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital
Notes:
- Finished Discharge Episode – A discharge episode is the last episode during a hospital stay (a spell), where the patient is discharged from the hospital or transferred to another hospital. Discharges do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one discharge from hospital within the period.
- Number of episodes in which the patient had a primary or secondary diagnosis – The number of episodes where this diagnosis was recorded in any of the 20 primary and secondary diagnosis fields in a Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) record. Each episode is only counted once, even if the diagnosis is recorded in more than one diagnosis field of the record.
- ICD-10 codes for Sepsis include – “A02.1 Salmonella sepsis, A20.7 Septicaemic plague, A21.7 Generalized tularaemia, A22.7 Anthrax sepsis, A26.7 Erysipelothrix sepsis, A28.0 Pasteurellosis, A28.2 Extraintestinal yersiniosis, A32.7 Listerial sepsis, A39.2 Acute meningococcaemia, A39.3 Chronic meningococcaemia, A39.4 Meningococcaemia, unspecified, A40.- Streptococcal sepsis, A41.- Other sepsis, A42.7 Actinomycotic sepsis, B37.7 Candidal sepsis, O85.X Puerperal sepsis, P36.- Bacterial sepsis of newborn,
The following pair of codes is a dagger/asterisk code pair (D and A) which must be present together: A39.1 Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, E35.1 Disorders of adrenal glands in diseases classified elsewhere.
