To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each year since 1997, broken down by ethnicity, the percentage of children suffering from asthma. [91987]
The information requested is not collected centrally. The table shows the number of hospital episodes by age where the primary diagnosis is asthma. The International Classification of Disease 10 codes J45–J46 has been used. The data is for 1997–98 to 2001–02.Information on the number of hospital episodes where the primary diagnosis is asthma is collected by age. This is shown in the table for the years 1997–98 to 2001–2002.
Ordinary admissions and day cases combined: completed episode primary diagnosis 493 (ICD9 code) diagnosis asthma J45–J46 ICD10)
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Number of admissions within the year in NHS hospitals
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Age
| 1997–98
| 1998–99
| 1999–2000
| 2000–01
| 2001–02
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| 0 to 4 | 21,061 | 19,431 | 17,493 | 14,580 | 15,253 |
| 5 to 14 | 12,885 | 11,896 | 11,703 | 11,147 | 11,796 |
| 15 to 44 | 21,271 | 20,245 | 18,796 | 17,993 | 17,084 |
| Unknown | 13 | 10 | 20 | 57 | 69 |