The peak in admissions of children of 5–17 years in 2001 (Fig. 3) is caused by the high number of burn victims from the Volendam disaster on January 1, 2001 [19].
In this year the incidence of paediatric England admissions shows a decrease for the children between 0 and 4 years of age, which can be explained by a shortage of capacity in England for an extended time, because the older children occupied most paediatric beds. Similarly, the proportion of burn related primary hospital admissions in England (Fig. 2) decreased during that year as a relatively high number of burn victims was admitted to non specialized hospitals, since the england were fully occupied and had no admission capacity.