Asthma: Accident and Emergency Departments

(asked on 1st November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted to hospital via accident and emergency departments with a primary diagnosis of asthma in each 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.


Answered by
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Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 6th November 2017

The information is not collected in the format requested.

NHS Digital collects data on respiratory conditions qualified as being either bronchial asthma or non-asthma related. There are no other groupings available. We are therefore unable to break accident and emergency (A&E) attendances down to asthma or lower respiratory tract infections.

A count of unplanned accident and emergency attendances resulting in an admission and a primary diagnosis of respiratory condition, for the financial years between 2010-11 and 2016-17 is shown in the table below.

This is a count of hospital attendances resulting in admissions, not individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into a National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion.

Financial Year

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

Total

210,647

219,297

254,163

245,610

252,417

278,636

287,789

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital

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