Soaring numbers of people in hospital suffering from anxietyAnxiety is an increasing problem for people in Coventry and Warwickshire, with the number of people going to hospital with the condition soaring.
New figures have revealed there were 12,230 occasions on which people were treated at hospitals covering Coventry and Warwickshire in 2017/18 with a primary or secondary diagnosis of anxiety.
That represents an increase of 30 per cent from 9,385 cases in 2016/17 - and is more than four times higher than the figure of 2,725 in 2010/11.
The latest figures also mean one in 26 treatment episodes last year at hospitals covering Coventry and Warwickshire involved people suffering from anxiety.
Within the total, 1,795 episodes involving anxious patients were people aged 60 to 69, while 1,780 were aged 50 to 59.
While older patients are the most likely to suffer from anxiety, the biggest increase has been in the youngest age groups.
The number of incidents involving patients aged between 10 and 19 with a primary or secondary diagnosis of anxiety has gone up from 45 in 2010/11 to 515 in 2017/18.
South Warwickshire NHS Trust saw the biggest increase in the number of treatment episodes involving patients with anxiety, up 507% from 550 in 2010/11 to 3,340 in 2017/18.
At George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, one in 24 treatment episodes involved someone with anxiety in 2017/18, the highest rate locally, with 1,895 treatment episodes last year.
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 7:46 am