Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

(asked on 19th March 2015) - View Source

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.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 24th March 2015

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.

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