FOI reference: FOI-2025-2506
You asked
Please provide the number of patients who have presented to an emergency department with a diagnostic code for:
- Assault by sharp object
- Aged between 13-25 years, broken down by 13-17 and 18-25
- Each year for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- By NHS Hospital trust
- If possible an overall breakdown of ONS registered ethnicity would be great
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We produce figures on the levels and trends of crime in England and Wales primarily based on two sets of crime statistics: the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and police recorded crime (PRC) data provided by the Home Office.
While we do publish some data on the number of hospital admissions in NHS hospitals in England and Wales for assault with sharp objects, these data are obtained from NHS England and from Digital Health and Care Wales.
The data we publish can be found in appendix table B8 in the Crime in England and Wales appendix tables.
Information on submitting an FOI request through the NHS England Customer Contact Centre can be found here: https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/contact-us/freedom-of-information
Information on submitting an FOI request through Digital Health and Care Wales can be found here: https://dhcw.nhs.wales/use-of-site/freedom-of-information/
If you have any other crime-related queries in the future, you can email crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk.