Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS patients in England with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were subject to a delayed transfer of care from an acute care setting in each year since 2009-10.
The attached table gives a count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for years 2009-10 to 2013-14.
Data on delayed transfer of care is not available in the format requested.