"Figure 5: Recent rises in offences involving a knife or sharp instrument seen in both the number of crimes recorded by the police and in NHS hospital admissions","" "England and Wales, year ending March 2011 to year ending March 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics." "Unit","Indexed values" "","" "Year ending March","Police recorded crime ","NHS admissions data" "2011","100","100" "2012","95","97" "2013","81","83" "2014","78","79" "2015","80","77" "2016","88","87" "2017","106","94" "2018","124","107"