Admissions for children with long-term conditions, emergency admissions and A&E attendance: 2023 update
Update of indicators for hospital admissions for various conditions, overall emergency admissions and A&E attendance 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
- hospital admissions:
- for gastroenteritis and respiratory tract infections for babies and young children
- for asthma, diabetes and epilepsy for children and young people under 19 years by different age groups
- A&E attendance for different age groups
Following a review of indicators with users, those which use pooled years for emergency admissions for accidents and injuries and subsets of road traffic accidents were not updated this year and will be updated every 3 to 5 years instead. These are:
- emergency admissions to hospital for children aged 0 to 4 years for different causes of accidents
- emergency admissions for children and young people up to age 24 following road traffic accidents for pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and car occupants
- road traffic accidents by different severity, modes of transport, age groups and type of road
Indicators for clinical commissioning groups were not updated following their closure in 2022.