Question follow-through · 60247
Hospitals: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children aged between 28 days and 17 years old were admitted to NHS care for more than seven days in the latest period for which data is available.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jun 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children aged between 28 days and 17 years old were admitted to NHS care for more than seven days in the latest period for which data is available.
20 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jun 2025
Answer published
NHS England collects the data on patient discharge episodes, including for children, through the Hospital Episode Statistics. Discharge data does not represent the number of individual children with a hospital stay, as a child may have more than one disch...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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