FOI Ref: 0241FOI1920

20^th March 2020 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information

We are pleased to respond to your request for information and our response is set out below:

Request/ Response

I write to request information under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 (‘the Act’) on the numbers of patients per year who have had an accidental fall in your CCG area, and the numbers patients who have died as a result of an accidental fall per year.

The information is requested as numbers per year (from 2010 onwards) on an individual year by year basis under the following headings:

1. Number of A&E attendances per year associated with an accidental fall in your CCG area.

There is no clear coding convention in the A&E data set to accurately derive    falls. 

2. Hospital outpatient appointments per year associated with an accidental fall in your CCG area.

Reason for out-patient appointments are not recorded.

3. GP appointments per year associated with an accidental fall in your CCG area.

The CCG does not hold that data – individual GP practices may.

4. Number of deaths per year associated with an accidental fall in your CCG area

The extract of deaths notifications the CCG holds do not record precise cause of death. ONS are the owners of that data. 

AND

The numbers of patients per year who have a fall associated with vision correction (glasses use e.g.).

None of the measures below are collected due to no requirement to record “vision correction”.

The information is requested as numbers per year (from 2010 onwards) on an individual year by year basis under the following headings:

1. The number of A&E attendances per year for an accidental fall associated with glasses use in your CCG area.
2. The number of hospital outpatient appointments per year for an accidental fall associated with glasses use in your CCG area.
3. The number of GP appointments per year for an accidental fall associated with glasses use in your CCG area.
4. The number of deaths per year for an accidental fall associated with glasses use in your CCG area.