Asthma

(asked on 16th May 2022) - 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 have been admitted to hospitals in England as a result of exacerbations of their asthma in the last 12 months.


Answered by
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Gillian Keegan
This question was answered on 19th May 2022

The information is not collected in the format requested. The following table shows a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of asthma in English National Health Service hospitals and NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector from 2017/18 to 2020/21. Data for 2021/22 is not yet available.

Year

FAEs

2017/18

78,890

2018/19

84,343

2019/20

84,003

2020/21

39,216

Source: NHS Digital

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