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Influenza: Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many admissions to hospital there were for flu in December 2025.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
6 Jan 2026
Target answer date
8 Jan 2026
Answer
15 Jan 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many admissions to hospital there were for flu in December 2025.

  2. 8 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    In December 2025, an average of 2,888 hospital beds were occupied by patients with flu across all acute settings, including both General and Acute and Critical Care beds.These figures are published in the NHS England Winter Situation Reports, which are av...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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