| Heading: |
Hospitals: Children |
| Question ID: |
1790073 |
| UIN: |
42343 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5244 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Chris Hinchliff
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Chris Hinchliff
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children were admitted into NHS care for more than seven days in the latest period for which data is available. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
NHS England collects data on patient discharge episodes, including for children. Discharge data does not represent the number of individual children with a hospital stay, as a child may have more than one discharge from hospital within the reporting perio... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |