§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the incidence of(a) asthma and (b) leukaemia in children aged between 5 and 15 was in each year since 2000. [152549]
§ Dr. LadymanInformation on the incidence of asthma in children is not collected centrally. Hospital Episode Statistics recording the number of finished admission episodes for asthma in children aged five to 15 are shown in the table.
Number of finished admission episodes 2000–01 12,266 2001–02 12,440 2002–03 11,394 Notes:
Finished admission episodes
A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one health care provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.
1123WDiagnosis (Primary Diagnosis)
The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002–03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital.
Grossing
Figures are grossed for both coverage and missing/invalid clinical data, except for 2001–02 and 2002–03, which are not yet adjusted for shortfalls.
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health
The number of registrations of newly diagnosed cases of leukaemia1 in children aged five to 14 in England in 2000, the most recent year for which data are available2, was 168.
1 International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), codes C91–C95.
2 Office for National Statistics, 'Cancer Statistics—Registrations, England, 2000', Series MB I. No.31.