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 five years.
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