Asthma

(asked on 5th June 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Thelma Walker Portrait
Thelma Walker
(Labour - Colne Valley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in (a) the UK, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) Colne Valley suffer from asthma.

Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 13th June 2018

We do not hold the data in the format requested. However, the Department can provide a response using data from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) covering primary care. This data covers England and we cannot answer for the entire United Kingdom.

The QOF provides the number of patients registered with asthma for England, West Yorkshire Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) and NHS Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), for 2016/17, shown in the following table.

QOF Asthma recorded disease prevalence, 2016-17

Asthma Recorded Prevalence

Organisation Name

Number of practices

List Size

Register of asthma patients

Prevalence (%)

England

7,392

58,029,147

3,444,218

5.94

West Yorkshire STP

334

2,682,913

170,435

6.35

NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG

37

246,583

15,923

6.46

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