Asthma: Death
(asked on 26th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people who have died as a result of asthma in (a) England and (b) Gloucestershire, in each of the last ten years for which figures are available.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities publishes the Interactive Health Atlas of Lung conditions in England profile that includes asthma metrics and compares local areas within England. The profile includes the mortality rate from asthma.
The following table shows the number of deaths for the last 10 years.
Year | Gloucestershire CCG | England |
2011 | 8 | 982 |
2012 | 8 | 1,054 |
2013 | 8 | 1,037 |
2014 | 8 | 1,045 |
2015 | 12 | 1,221 |
2016 | 13 | 1,169 |
2017 | 9 | 1,236 |
2018 | 12 | 1,333 |
2019 | 13 | 1,202 |
2020 | 10 | 1,261 |