In the financial year commencing 1 April 2007 the Department gave £34,000 from their Section 64 scheme to the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation for them to provide personal, community and social support services to mining and ex-mining communities and their residents, for those with problems resulting from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
The Department is also currently developing a national services framework for COPD, which will result in national standards and markers of good practice. It will improve the quality of and access to COPD services, reducing inequalities and reduce health care utilisation costs.
The advice will pay particular attention to the need to reduce variations in outcomes, including those associated with ethnicity, social deprivation and social exclusion.
An expert reference group will produce advice for Ministers by January/February 2008. The COPD NSF will be published in 2008 with implementation at the start of 2009.
The quality and outcomes framework (QOF) part of the General Medical Services contract requires practices to record patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (OPD). The number of patients for practices in Bassetlaw for the financial year 2006-07 was 2,153. The corresponding figure for England was 765,806.
The number of people with COPD who work in heavy industry is not collected centrally.
Note:
Coverage of QOF
Patients will only contribute to the figures in QOF if they are registered with a general practice participating in QOF.
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Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 7 January 2008:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many deaths there were as a result of (a) chronic bronchitis and (b) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the last year for which figures are available. I am replying in her absence. (174677)
The latest figures available refer to deaths registered in England and Wales in the calendar year 2006. There were 23,319 deaths with an underlying cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease1, of which 230 had an underlying cause of chronic bronchitis2.
1 Selected using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes J40-J44.
2 Selected using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes J40-J42.
The quality and outcomes framework (QOF) part of the General Medical Services contract requires practices to record patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The prevalence in each primary care trust (PCT) for the year 2006-07 are shown in the following table.
PCT code PCT name Percentage 5HG Ashton Leigh and Wigan PCT 1.8 5C2 Barking and Dagenham PCT 1.2 5A9 Barnet PCT 0.8 5JE Barnsley PCT 2.5 5ET Bassetlaw 2.0 5FL Bath and North East Somerset PCT 1.2 5P2 Bedfordshire PCT 1.1 5QG Berkshire East PCT 0.9 5QF Berkshire West PCT 0.9 TAK Bexley Care Trust 1.3 5PG Birmingham East and North PCT 1.4 5CC Blackburn with Darwen PCT 1.9 5HP Blackpool PCT 2.3 5HQ Bolton PCT 1.8 5QN Bournemouth and Poole PCT 1.3 5NY Bradford and Airedale PCT 1.7 5K5 Brent PCT 0.6 5LQ Brighton and Hove City Teaching PCT 1.0 5QJ Bristol PCT 1.5 5A7 Bromley PCT 1.1 5QD Buckinghamshire PCT 1.0 5JX Bury PCT 1.7 5J6 Calderdale 1.6 5PP Cambridgeshire PCT 1.2 5K7 Camden PCT 0.8 5NP Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT 1.5 5NG Central Lancs PCT 1.6 5C3 City and Hackney Primary Care Team 0.8 5QP Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT 1.6 5ND County Durham PCT 2.3 5MD Coventry PCT 1.4 5K9 Croydon PCT 0.7 5NE Cumbria PCT 1.9 5J9 Darlington PCT 1.8 5N7 Derby City PCT 1.5 5N6 Derbyshire County PCT 1.7 5QQ Devon PCT 1.4 5N5 Doncaster PCT 2.4 5QM Dorset PCT 1.4 5PE Dudley PCT 1.3 5HX Ealing PCT 0.7 5P3 East and North Hertfordshire PCT 1.1 5NH East Lancs PCT 2.0 5NW East Riding of Yorkshire PCT 1.6 5P7 East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT 1.4 5QA Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT 1.6 5C1 Enfield PCT 0.8 5KF Gateshead PCT 2.2 5QH Gloucestershire PCT 1.3 5PR Great Yarmouth and Waveney Teaching PCT 1.9 5A8 Greenwich PCT 1.1 5NM Halton and St. Helens PCT 2.2 5H1 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 1.0 5QC Hampshire PCT 1.1 5C9 Haringey PCT 0.7 5K6 Harrow PCT 0.7 5D9 Hartlepool PCT 2.2 5P8 Hastings and Rother PCT 1.5 5A4 Havering PCT 1.4 5MX Heart of Birmingham PCT 0.7 5CN Herefordshire PCT 1.3 5NQ Heywood Middleton and Rochdale PCT 1.7 5AT Hillingdon PCT 1.1 5HY Hounslow PCT 0.7 5NX Hull PCT 1.7 5QT Isle of Wight NHS PCT 1.4 5K8 Islington PCT 1.1 5LA Kensington and Chelsea PCT 0.8 5A5 Kingston 0.8 5N2 Kirklees PCT 1.4 5J4 Knowsley 2.8 5LD Lambeth PCT 0.7 5N1 Leeds PCT 1.6 5PC Leicester City PCT 1.1 5PA Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT 1.2 5LF Lewisham PCT 1.0 5N9 Lincolnshire PCT 1.8 5NL Liverpool PCT 2.3 5GC Luton 1.0 5NT Manchester PCT 1.8 5L3 Medway PCT 1.3 5PX Mid Essex PCT 0.9 5KM Middlesbrough PCT 2.4 5CQ Milton Keynes PCT 1.2 5D7 Newcastle upon Tyne PCT 1.9 5C5 Newham Primary Care Team 0.8 5PQ Norfolk PCT 1.6 5PW North East Essex PCT 1.4 SAN North East Lincolnshire PCT 1.9 5NF North Lancs PCT 1.9 5EF North Lincolnshire PCT 1.7 5M8 North Somerset PCT 1.5 5PH North Staffordshire PCT 1.7 5E1 North Tees PCT 1.9 5D8 North Tyneside PCT 2.0 5NV North Yorkshire and York PCT 1.4 5PD Northamptonshire PCT 1.3 TAC Northumberland Care Trust 2.2 5EM Nottingham City PCT 1.4 5N8 Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT 1.6 5J5 Oldham PCT 1.7 5QE Oxfordshire PCT 1.0 5PN Peterborough PCT 1.3 5F1 Plymouth PCT 1.5 5FE Portsmouth City PCT 1.4 5NA Redbridge PCT 0.7 5QR Redcar and Cleveland PCT 2.4 5M6 Richmond and Twickenham 0.9 5H8 Rotherham PCT 2.2 5F5 Salford PCT 2.3 5PF Sandwell PCT 1.7 5NJ Sefton PCT 2.1 5N4 Sheffield PCT 1.6 5M2 Shropshire County PCT 1.5 TAM Solihull Care Trust 1.4 5QL Somerset PCT 1.5 5M1 South Birmingham PCT 1.5 5P1 South East Essex PCT 1.4 5A3 South Gloucestershire PCT 1.2 5PK South Staffordshire PCT 1.4 5KG South Tyneside PCT 2.9 5PY South West Essex PCT 1.4 5L1 Southampton City PCT 1.6 5LE Southwark PCT 1.1 5F7 Stockport PCT 1.6 5PJ Stoke-on-Trent PCT 1.8 5PT Suffolk PCT 1.3 5KL Sunderland Teaching PCT 2.8 5P5 Surrey PCT 1.0 5M7 Sutton and Merton PCT 1.0 5K3 Swindon PCT 1.5 5LH Tameside and Glossop PCT 2.1 5MK Telford and Wrekin PCT 1.6 TAL Torbay Care Trust 1.7 5C4 Tower Hamlets Primary Care Team 1.2 5NR Trafford PCT 1.4 5N3 Wakefield District PCT 2.3 5M3 Walsall Teaching PCT 1.5 5NC Waltham Forest PCT 0.8 5LG Wandsworth PCT 0.8 5J2 Warrington PCT 1.6 5PM Warwickshire PCT 1.2 5PV West Essex PCT 1.2 5P4 West Hertfordshire PCT 1.1 5P9 West Kent PCT 1.2 5P6 West Sussex PCT 1.3 5NN Western Cheshire PCT 1.5 5LC Westminster PCT 0.7 5QK Wiltshire PCT 1.3 5NK Wirral PCT 2.2 5MV Wolverhampton City PCT 1.4 5PL Worcestershire PCT 1.3 Notes: 1.Coverage of QOF. Patients will only contribute to the figures in QOF if they are registered with a general practice participating in QOF. 2.The prevalence is the number of patients on the COPD register divided by the total number of patients expressed as a percentage.