§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the number of(a) admissions to hospital, (b) visits to a GP and (c) other interfaces with the National Health Service that were alcohol related and their combined cost in each of the last five years. [67020]
§ Ms Blears[pursuant to her reply 12 July 2002, c. 1267 W]: I regret my previous answer was incorrect. This was a mathematical error.
Number1 of asthma-related2 deaths in England and Wales by age group, 1997–2001 number of deaths Age Group 1997 1998 1999 2000 Calendar Year 20013 00–04 4 3 6 2 7 05–09 10 9 6 7 6 10–14 7 12 11 13 13 15–19 16 9 20 13 16 20–24 22 10 22 23 7 25–29 27 13 13 17 17 30–34 20 21 21 26 15 35–39 28 31 32 19 26 40–44 41 37 31 46 38 45–49 43 41 55 58 41 50–54 67 73 61 78 58 55–59 75 112 85 73 71 60–64 110 82 88 84 89 65–69 135 146 143 103 117 70–74 200 166 157 164 127 75–79 200 194 178 185 158 80–84 191 179 165 146 162 85+ 243 228 270 215 300 All ages 1439 1366 1364 1272 1268 Notes: 1Figures are for deaths occurring in each calendar year. 2Defined as deaths where the underlying cause of death was coded as asthma (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD9), code 493 for the years 1997 to 2000 and International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD10), codes J45–J46 for the year 2001). 3Details of the effect of the change in classification in 2001 are described in a report published in May 2002.i iOffice for National Statistics. Results of the ICD-10 bridge coding study, England and Wales, 1999. Health Statistics Quarterly 14 (2002), 75–83. Source:
Office for National Statistics.
450WIn table 1, National Health Service hospital admissions where there was a primary diagnosis of selected alcohol related disease, the total figure for 1997–98 should read, 45,800.
In table 2, Estimated cost of alcohol misuse to the NHS, England and Wales, 1999, the total cost to NHS should read, £208 million.