Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people under 50 have been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the last 12 months.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
Information is not held in the format requested. However, using Hospital Episode Statistics data, the following table shows a count of Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) for patients under 50 years old with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, for 2023/24 and provisionally for February 2024 to January 2025:
ICD-10 diagnosis code | Description | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
J41 | Simple and mucopurulent chronic bronchitis | 24 | 14 |
J42 | Unspecified chronic bronchitis | 186 | 183 |
J43 | Emphysema | 530 | 551 |
J44 | Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 3,727 | 3,640 |
J47 | Bronchiectasis | 1,741 | 1,834 |
An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are typically counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes, which is the approach we have used here. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.
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