Lord Moylan: To ask His Majesty's Government how many cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome have been recorded in each of the last ten years.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Care (Lady Merron): The information is not held in the format requested. However, the following table shows a count of the Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) where the primary diagnosis was Guillain-Barré syndrome, for the period 2014/15 to 2023/24 in England:
Year | FAEs |
2014/15 | 1,403 |
2015/16 | 1,354 |
2016/17 | 1,412 |
2017/18 | 1,342 |
2018/19 | 1,337 |
2019/20 | 1,354 |
2020/21 | 921 |
2021/22 | 1,243 |
2022/23 | 1,374 |
2023/24 | 1,367 |
Source: data is from the Hospital Episode Statistics, by NHS England. Notes:
admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period;
an FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider, and are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes; and
this data refers to activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
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