Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Accident and Emergency Departments
(asked on 31st October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted via A&E with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in each of the financial years from 2010-11 to 2016-17.
This question was answered on 6th November 2017
The data is not available in the format requested.
This is because the format of the available data shows accident and emergency (A&E) admissions where a diagnosis of a respiratory condition can be made. There are no other groupings available. We are therefore unable to break A&E attendances down to those with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.