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Post by Denise on Jun 17, 2011 9:36:55 GMT
20,800 hospital admissions in England over a 12 month period were for people recorded as having a fall involving a bed, provisional figures from the NHS Information Centre show. Between March 2010 and February 2011 there were also: · 12,000 admissions for people who had falls involving chairs · 6,400 admissions for people falling on or from ladders · 1,200 admissions for people falling out of trees · 170 admissions for people falling from cliffs The figures are part of a special topic on falls, presented as part of the monthly provisional hospital episode statistics. www.ic.nhs.uk/news-and-events/news/over-twenty-thousand-hospital-admissions-due-to-people-falling-out-of-bed-latest-figures-show
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