§ Mr. HepburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people had asthma in(a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) Tyne and Wear and (d) the UK (i) in 1980, (ii) in 1990, (iii) in 2000 and (iv) on the last date for which figures are available. [113270]
§ Dr. LadymanInformation on the prevalence of individual conditions is not collected centrally. However, it is estimated that up to 4 per cent., of adults and 4 per cent. to 6 per cent., of children are affected by asthma severely enough to require medical supervision. This equates to around 2 million people in England or 2.5 million in the United Kingdom.
Data are not collected at constituency level or for the year 1980, however data for hospital admissions due to asthma by District Health Authority for the years 1990–91 and by national health service trusts for the years 2000–01 are shown in the tables. 426W
Primary diagnosis asthma (ICD9 code 493), district health authorities, finished consultant episodes, count of finished in-year
admissions, NHS hospitals, 1990–91
District health authorities Total finished in-year admission episodes South Tyneside 197 Sunderland 594 North Tyneside 320 Newcastle 611 Gateshead 255 England 75,872
Primary diagnosis asthma (ICD10 code J45, J46), NHS trusts, finished consultant episodes, count of finished in-year admissions,
NHS hospitals, 2000–01
NHS trusts Total finished in-year admission episodes South Tyneside healthcare NHS trust 190 City hospitals Sunderland NHS trust 341 Gateshead health NHS trust 342 Newcastle upon Tyne hospitals NHS trust 523 Northumbria health care NHS trust 397 England 60,376 Notes:
1. The primary diagnosis is the first of seven diagnosis fields in the HES data set, and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital2. Figures in this table have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health