Official Statistics

Admissions for children with long-term conditions, emergency admissions and A&E attendance: 2022 update

Update of indicators for hospital admissions for various conditions, overall emergency admissions, A&E attendance and road traffic accident admissions for different age groups.

Applies to England

Documents

Child and maternal health profiles: May 2022 update

Details

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
  • subsets of road traffic accidents

Updates to this page

Published 4 May 2022

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