Accident and Emergency Departments: Lung Diseases
(asked on 2nd July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the trends in the level of A&E attendances for (a) asthma and (b) other respiratory conditions in each of the last 12 months.
Respiratory disease is a clinical priority within the NHS Long Term Plan. The respiratory interventions proposed in the NHS Long Term Plan include early and accurate diagnosis of respiratory conditions, which help prevents avoidable emergency admissions.
The following table shows the data for bronchial asthma and respiratory (non-asthma) related hospital episodes for each month since April 2019.
Month |
| Bronchial Asthma | Respiratory, non-asthma |
April 2019 |
| 11,804 | 83,842 |
May 2019 |
| 12,436 | 73,477 |
June 2019 |
| 12,385 | 64,847 |
July 2019 |
| 11,757 | 66,566 |
August 2019 |
| 9,448 | 60,097 |
September 2019 |
| 16,036 | 78,657 |
October 2019 |
| 17,589 | 105,935 |
November 2019 |
| 19,106 | 130,188 |
December 2019 |
| 19,351 | 169,210 |
January 2020 |
| 14,613 | 116,642 |
February 2020 |
| 12,605 | 100,841 |
March 2020 |
| 12,800 | 97,692 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital. This data is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustment have yet been made.