Nicholas Soames – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds in the number of people in a permanent vegetative state in the UK; and how many such people are cared for by the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.

David Mowat

Information on the number of people in a permanent vegetative state is not collected centrally.

Brighton and Sussex University Hospital are currently not caring for any patients in a permanent vegetative state.