Table 2.

Hospital admissions with a primary diagnosis of heart failure in England in 2015/2016

N	Age range	Overall		Emergency (non-elective)		Elective		Day cases
		Patients	Spells	Patients*	Spells	Patients*	Spells	Patients*	Spells
With secondary ID/IDA	≥21 years	26 530	33 711	25 160	30 584	1063	1146	991	1981
	≥75 years	19 312	23 918	18 654	22 291	542	573	434	1054
Without secondary ID/IDA	≥21 years	52 275	62 064	45 784	52 478	3581	3789	4492	5797
	≥75 years	33 402	38 747	31 287	35 475	1365	1438	1328	1834

*Patients could be counted in more than one column for emergency, elective and day case admissions if they required more than one type of admission during the period analysed.

ID, iron deficiency; IDA, iron deficiency anaemia.