A further 20% are referred because of low, insecure income.
Other children may be referred because of a concern or question.
Study design: the study group comprised 304 women referred because of abnormal pap smears in whom a histological diagnosis was made.
Study design: Two female patients of 33- and 50-year-old, respectively were referred because of severe disseminated HSV2 infection and myelodysplastic marrow.
However, this was only marginally above the 25% of people referred because of a low income, with another 16% going to a food bank because of changes to benefits.
Currently, gastroenterologists have to cope with a growing number of GERD patients, who are referred because of continuation of GERD-related symptoms, despite treatment with a PPI (PPI failure).
More than a fifth, 22%, of food bank users were referred because of low income – meaning they were unable to afford food due to a relatively small financial crisis such as a boiler breaking down or having to buy a school uniform.
More than half of the 150,000 people receiving emergency food aid from Trussell food banks between April and June were referred because of benefit delays, sanctions, and financial difficulties relating to the bedroom tax and abolition of council tax relief, it said.
The fact that such a small proportion of people on the social care register are referred because of concerns about their conduct (1.1% in the last year), and only 8% of referrals lead to a conduct hearing (0.3% over the past eight years are found to have committed misconduct), is reassuring but not grounds for complacency.
However, an emerging trend, according to the charity, is that 22% of those helped were referred because of "low income" compared with 16% of referrals in the same period last year – meaning 51,000 more people were referred to a food bank due to low income.
Six years previously, he had been referred because of difficulty swallowing.
