Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted via accident and emergency departments with a primary diagnosis of a respiratory condition in each month of the (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14, (e) 2014-15, (f) 2015-16 and (g) 2016-17 financial years.

The table below provides a count of unplanned accident and emergency (A&E) department attendances¹ resulting in admission² and a primary diagnosis of respiratory condition³ in each month for the financial years between 2010-11 and 2016-17. This is a count of hospital attendences resulting in admissions, not individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into an National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion.

Notes:

¹The following attendance category codes identify unplanned A&E attendances:

1 = First A&E attendance

3 = Follow-up A&E attendance – unplanned

9 = Not known

²01 = Admitted to hospital bed / become a lodged patient of the same health care provider.

³It should be noted that the recording of the diagnosis field within the A&E data set is not mandatory. It is not known to what extent changes over time are as a result of improvements in recording practice

25 = Respiratory conditions