Respiratory Diseases: North Herefordshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the prevalence of respiratory disease and (b) the number of emergency hospital admissions for respiratory conditions in North Herefordshire compared with national averages.
Answered by Karin Smyth
Data is available for emergency Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) where there was a primary diagnosis of ‘respiratory conditions’. The following table shows the number of FAEs where there was a primary diagnosis of ‘respiratory conditions’ for North Herefordshire and England, for activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector, for 2024/25 and provisionally for 2025/26:
Westminster Parliamentary Constituency of Residence | 2024/25 (August 2024 to March 2025) | 2025/26 (April 2025 to February 2026) |
North Herefordshire | 735 | 700 |
England | 612,876 | 676,170 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS England.
Available data on trends in respiratory conditions can be found on the Department’s Fingertips dataset. Data is not available by parliamentary constituency. Data is available at regional, county, unitary authority, and integrated care board level. Information for Herefordshire can be found at the following link:
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