Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
(asked on 21st June 2017) - 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 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 27th June 2017
The number of individual diagnoses of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not held. The statistics provided are the number of finished admission episodes.
Financial Year | Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease (relating to COPD) |
2011-12 | 109,570 | 125,934 |
2012-13 | 117,897 | 135,859 |
2013-14 | 113,876 | 132,163 |
2014-15 | 123,518 | 143,233 |
2015-16 | 124,298 | 144,327 |