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 lower respiratory tract infection 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.
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