Parliamentary Answers - Hospital Admissions

Count of finished admissions for gunshot wounds by age and gender, NHS hospitals England and activity performed in the independent sector in England commissioned by English NHS

	Male			Female
Year ending	Under 18	Over 18	Unknown	Under 18	Over 18	Unknown
March 98	316	545	7	55	67	2
March 99	334	533	2	47	71	0
March 00	442	609	1	53	65	0
March 01	380	618	2	46	75	0
March 02	390	838	1	78	111	1
March 03	361	799	1	55	71	0
March 04	337	887	2	53	91	0
March 05	267	752	1	40	103	0
March 06	234	878	1	38	82	0
March 07	273	884	1	53	104	0

Count of finished admissions for gunshot wounds and knife related injuries by ethnicity, NHS hospitals England and activity performed in the independent sector in England commissioned by English NHS

	White	Mixed	Asian or	Black or	Other	Not known	Not Stated	Total
			Asian British	Black British	ethnic group
2006-07
Gunshot wound	809	16	40	114	42	60	234	1,315
Knife wound	3,574	71	239	112	132	253	903	5,284
2005-06
Gunshot wound	705	12	28	118	29	79	262	1,233
Knife wound	3,412	55	206	95	131	224	1,198	5,321
2004-05
Gunshot wound	641	15	31	81	17	93	285	1,163
Knife wound	3,142	38	175	104	102	255	1,123	4,939
2003-04
Gunshot wound	698	15	46	98	29	103	381	1,370
Knife wound	2,956	46	147	97	69	332	1,274	4,921
2002-03
Gunshot wound	594	20	49	88	21	106	409	1,287
Knife wound	2,754	35	181	88	80	282	1,385	4,805

Count of finished admissions with a gunshot related injury by SHA, national health service hospitals England and activity performed in the independent sector in England commissioned by English NHS

	2006-07
North East SHA	71
North West SHA	278
Yorkshire and Humber SHA	138
East Midlands SHA	96
West Midlands SHA	172
East of England SHA	103
London SHA	209
	73
South Central SHA	57
South West SHA	79
Unknown and Non England	39

Total	1,315

	2005-06	2004-05	2003-04	2002-03	2001-02	2000-01	1999-2000	1998-99	1997-98
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA	32	29	42	23	42	30	45	49	31
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire SHA	19	16	41	26	21	26	25	14	15
Essex SHA	21	26	27	29	25	27	37	32	24

North West London SHA	50	43	71	52	32	29	26	18	35
North Central London SHA	31	25	38	29	51	29	23	14	22
North East London SHA	64	48	69	74	59	47	41	26	24
South East London SHA	75	52	55	55	56	45	38	42	43
South West London SHA	34	21	23	21	21	13	23	13	18
London total	254	189	256	231	219	163	151	113	142

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear SHA	22	31	35	30	47	52	49	51	41
County Durham and Tees Valley SHA	28	22	25	39	37	28	28	35	31
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire SHA	41	35	46	41	47	40	29	32	15
West Yorkshire SHA	69	64	82	83	101	67	63	54	57
Cumbria and Lancashire SHA	42	54	51	57	63	62	52	44	53
Greater Manchester SHA	101	108	111	115	123	110	146	96	97
Cheshire and Merseyside SHA	108	98	116	85	97	69	74	72	58
Thames Valley SHA	29	23	34	31	36	37	37	23	27
Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA	27	24	34	19	32	27	32	23	26
Kent and Medway SHA	26	33	32	30	47	28	14	20	24
Surrey and Sussex SHA	39	44	40	28	42	27	25	39	31
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA	40	39	40	43	48	31	39	27	34
South West Peninsula SHA	22	27	36	26	24	29	31	24	25
Dorset and Somerset SHA	28	14	14	11	29	14	13	23	15
South Yorkshire SHA	50	55	40	62	61	48	42	38	24
Trent SHA	52	46	74	83	69	46	66	63	54
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland SHA	19	22	25	16	28	28	27	25	32
Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA	23	14	25	29	28	29	37	28	30
Birmingham and the Black Country SHA	67	73	76	89	86	62	59	27	50
West Midlands South SHA	38	44	37	28	21	24	26	22	18
Unknown and Non-England	36	33	31	33	47	18	23	13	40

Total	1,233	1,163	1,370	1,287	1,420	1,122	1,170	987	994