Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show

The Royal College of GPs noted that rising prices were making a nutritious diet increasingly unaffordable for some. Photograph: David Davies/PA

The number of people admitted to hospital in England because of a lack of vitamins or minerals is soaring, according to analysis of NHS figures.

In 2023-24 there were 191,927 admissions where the main reason was a lack of iron, up 11% on 2022-23. The figure is almost 10 times the 20,396 hospital admissions for lack of iron in 1998-99.