Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted via A&E with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in each of the financial years from 2010-11 to 2016-17.
The data is not available in the format requested.
This is because the format of the available data shows accident and emergency (A&E) admissions where a diagnosis of a respiratory condition can be made. There are no other groupings available. We are therefore unable to break A&E attendances down to those with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.