Official Statistics
Admissions for children with long-term conditions, emergency admissions and A&E attendance: 2021 update
Update of indicators for hospital admissions for various conditions, overall emergency admissions and road traffic accident admissions for different age groups.
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Indicators in the Child and maternal health profiles have been updated. The profiles give data at a local, regional and national level to inform the development and provision of health improvement and prevention activities and acute hospital services for children and families.
This release updates indicators relating to:
- emergency admissions:
- to hospital for children under 18 years by different age groups
- to hospital for children aged 0 to 4 years for falls; falls from furniture; exposure to animate mechanical force; inanimate mechanical forces; and heat and hot substances – and emergency admissions for accidental poisoning; poisoning from medicines, due to inhalation of food or vomit; hot tap water scalds; and burns from food and hot fluids
- for children and young people up to age 24 following road traffic accidents for pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and car occupants
- hospital admissions:
- for gastroenteritis and respiratory tract infections for babies and young children
- for asthma, diabetes and epilepsy for children under 19 years by different age groups
A&E attendance for different age groups has not been updated because of issues with the source data.