Atrial Fibrillation

(asked on 23rd May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have received a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 8th June 2018

This information is not held centrally. Information on the number of finished admission episodes (FAEs) in secondary care (activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS-commissioned activity in the independent sector) with a primary diagnosis for atrial fibrillation and flutter between 2012/13 and 2016/17, and for atrial fibrillation only for 2016-17, is shown in the following table.

2012/13

98,503

2013/14

100,991

2014/15

102,569

2015/16

107,895

2016/17

109,431

Note:

An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period. The primary diagnosis refers to the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital.

The number of FAEs in secondary care with a primary diagnosis for atrial fibrillation only in 2016/17 is 34,517. Atrial fibrillation-only FAE data (i.e. not including atrial flutter FAE data as well) is not available prior to 2016/17 as this information was not separately recorded by NHS Digital prior to that year.

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