Respiratory System: Diseases
(asked on 14th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with chest infections in 2014.
There is no national system currently for collecting data relating to diagnoses of chest infections specifically. However, we are able to provide the latest data on patients admitted to hospital with two of the infections that are relevant, namely upper respiratory tract infections and lower respiratory tract infections. These are provided in the table below. The data do not include infections treated by general practitioner practices.
In terms of information on chest infections in Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport, data collections systems do not exist to provide the requested data at constituency level.
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for England. Inpatient Statistics 2012/13 for England.
Summary code | Primary diagnosis and description | Finished consultant episodes |
J00-J06 | Acute upper respiratory infections | 138,673 |
J20-J22 | Other acute lower respiratory infections | 192,271 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre. HES.
Note:
A “finished consultant episode” is an inpatient or day case episode where the patient has completed a period of care under a consultant and is either transferred to another consultant or discharged.