Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

(asked on 6th December 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Shannon Portrait
Jim Shannon
(Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed as having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Portrait
David Mowat
This question was answered on 12th December 2016

The number of people diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) each year is not available. However, the number of patients with a diagnosis of COPD on their general practitioner patient record for each year between 2011-12 and 2015-16 is displayed below. This information is also published by NHS Digital on the Quality and Outcomes Framework website which can be found at:

http://content.digital.nhs.uk/QOF

Reporting year

COPD disease register

2015-16

1,066,471

2014-15

1,034,578

2013-14

1,004,920

2012-13

974,999

2011-12

938,511

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