Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many emergency admissions there were of children and young people under 24-years old with asthma in each of the last six years.
The information requested is in the table below, which shows a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with an emergency admission method, for:
- Asthma;
- Acute bronchitis; and
- All emergency admissions.
The data is for the whole of England and those aged less than 24 years. The data is for each financial year between 2010-11 and 2015-16.
Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector
2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | |
Asthma | 29,807 | 26,302 | 30,251 | 27,325 | 30,092 | 28,605 |
Acute bronchitis | 618 | 626 | 756 | 830 | 612 | 529 |
All | 1,121,415 | 1,086,573 | 1,109,767 | 1,106,448 | 1,125,604 | 1,157,629 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital |