Accident and Emergency Departments: Heart Diseases and Strokes
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have presented at A&E for a (a) heart attack and (b) stroke in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Karin Smyth
Prior to 2020/21, the mechanism used to collect and record accident and emergency activity was not sufficiently granular to identify the requested conditions. However, NHS England can provide a count of attendances with a relevant primary diagnosis from 2020/21 onwards. The following table shows the number of attendances, broken down by the relevant diagnosis, from 2020/21 to 2023/24:
Year | Diagnosis | Attendances |
2020/21 | Stroke | 110,756 |
2020/21 | Heart Attack | 28,209 |
2020/21 | Cardiac Arrest | 9,130 |
2021/22 | Stroke | 118,699 |
2021/22 | Heart Attack | 34,875 |
2021/22 | Cardiac Arrest | 10,301 |
2022/23 | Stroke | 120,731 |
2022/23 | Heart Attack | 35,524 |
2022/23 | Cardiac Arrest | 10,887 |
2023/24 | Stroke | 122,812 |
2023/24 | Heart Attack | 35,829 |
2023/24 | Cardiac Arrest | 10,185 |
Source: the data is from The Emergency Care Data Set, which is available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/emergency-care-data-set-ecds
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