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Emergency admissions (rate per 1,000 population) aged 0-4 (17160) Metric type
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- Emergency admissions (rate per 1,000 population) aged 0-4
Approximately 35% of all admissions in the NHS in England are classified as emergency admissions, costing approximately £11 billion a year. Admitting a patient to hospital as an emergency case is costly and frequently preventable, yet the number of emergency admissions to hospital has been rising for some time. From a public health point of view, emergency admissions data gives an indication of wider determinants of poor health, linked to areas such as housing and transport.Over one quarter of emergency hospital admissions in children aged under 5 years in 2014/15 was for respiratory infections. Factors such as smoking in the home and damp housing are known to increase the risk and severity of respiratory infections in young children.
Originally published as part of NHS Digital Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)
- Modified
- 08 Mar 2024
- Data last updated
- 11 Mar 2024
- Short label
- Emergency admissions (aged 0-4)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 2
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Rate of hospital admissions per 1,000
- Dataset
- Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)
- Collection
- Child and Maternal Health
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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