Accidents

Accidental injury is a leading cause of child death in England and Wales. Around 2.7 million accidents that lead people to seek hospital treatment occur in UK homes each year, over 40% of them caused by falls. Half a million people in England are admitted to hospital due to accidental injury each year. Treating injury costs the NHS over £2 billion a year. The cost to society of accidents in the home was estimated at £25 billion in 1996. Over 300,000 people are killed or injured in road traffic accidents in Great Britain each year. Falls are a major cause of disability and the leading cause of injury mortality in people aged over 75 in England and Wales. Onethird to one half of people aged over 65 fall each year. Over 400,000 older people in England attend accident and emergency departments following a fall. Up to 14,000 people die annually in the UK as a result of an osteoporotic hip fracture.

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