AQW 10601/17-22


Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry


Tabled Date: 19/11/2020
Answered On Date: 16/12/2020
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the total new diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections in Northern Ireland, broken down by Trust area, for each of the previous five years.


Answer:
The information requested on the diagnoses of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Northern Ireland has been provided in tabulated form below. As requested, the information has been broken down by Health and Social Care Trust and for the time period 2015/6-2019/20.
Sexually Transmitted Infection Related1 Admissions2, 2015/16-2019/20
HSC Trusts
2015/16
2016/17
2017/18
2018/19
2019/20
Belfast
57
34
29
42
58
Northern
19
19
13
28
20
South Eastern
31
28
21
24
29
Southern
25
20
21
17
19
Western
24
18
11
15
14
Total
156
119
95
126
140
Source: Hospital Inpatient System, Hospital Information Branch, Information & Analysis Directorate, Department of Health, NI.
1 The following ICD-10 codes were used to denote a diagnosis of Sexually Transmitted Infection in each of the 17 diagnostic fields:
A50 Congenital syphilis
A51 Early syphilis
A52 Late syphilis
A53 Other and unspecified syphilis
A54 Gonococcal infection
A55 Chlamydial lymphogranuloma (venereum)
A56 Other sexually transmitted chlamydial diseases
A57 Chancroid
A58 Granuloma inguinal
A59 Trichomoniasis
A60 Anogenital herpesviral [herpes simplex] infections
A63 Other predominantly sexually transmitted diseases, not elsewhere classified
A64 Unspecified sexually transmitted disease
A74 Other diseases caused by chlamydia
B20 Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease resulting in infectious and parasitic diseases
B21 Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease resulting in malignant neoplasms
B22 Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease resulting in other specified diseases
B23 Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease resulting in other conditions
B24 Unspecified human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease
B85.2 Pediculosis, unspecified
B85.3 Phthiriasis
B85.4 Mixed pediculosis and phthiriasis
B86 Scabies
O98.1 Syphilis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
O98.2 Gonorrhoea complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
O98.3 Other infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Z20.2 Contact with and exposure to infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission
Z20.6 Contact with and exposure to human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]
Z21 Asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] infection status
Z22.4 Carrier of infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission
2 Figures do not include admissions to mental health or learning disability programmes of care which account for less than 1% of all hospital admissions. Admissions are approximated through deaths and discharges. These figures do not denote individuals