Darent Valley Hospital: Respiratory Diseases
(asked on 14th October 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people over 70 years old have been hospitalised with respiratory issues at Darent Valley Hospital in each of the last 10 years.
Data on the number of people hospitalised or admitted is not recorded. Finished Admission Episodes (FAE) are recorded, although these are not substitutions for counts of people, as the same person may have been admitted to hospital on more than one occasion within any given time period.
The following table shows a count of FAEs where there was a primary diagnosis of all respiratory conditions, for patients aged 70 years old or over, at Darent Valley Hospital for the period 2014/15 to 2023/24:
Year | Number of FAEs for patients over aged 70 years old |
2014/15 | 1,585 |
2015/16 | 1,610 |
2016/17 | 1,920 |
2017/18 | 2,150 |
2018/19 | 2,065 |
2019/20 | 2,075 |
2020/21 | 1,230 |
2021/22 | 1,740 |
2022/23 | 1,985 |
2023/24 | 2,075 |
The following table shows a count of FAEs where there was a primary diagnosis of asthma, for patients aged zero to 17 years old, at Darent Valley Hospital for the period 2014/15 to 2023/24:
Year | Number of FAEs for patients aged zero to 17 years old |
2014/15 | 130 |
2015/16 | 110 |
2016/17 | 95 |
2017/18 | 100 |
2018/19 | 100 |
2019/20 | 110 |
2020/21 | 65 |
2021/22 | 150 |
2022/23 | 100 |
2023/24 | 120 |
The following table shows a count of FAEs where there was a primary diagnosis of all respiratory conditions, for patients aged less than one years old, at Darent Valley Hospital for the period 2014/15 to 2023/24:
Year | Number of FAEs for patients aged under one years old |
2014/15 | 645 |
2015/16 | 795 |
2016/17 | 935 |
2017/18 | 915 |
2018/19 | 1,030 |
2019/20 | 1,155 |
2020/21 | 260 |
2021/22 | 1,465 |
2022/23 | 1,740 |
2023/24 | 1,715 |