The information requested is not available in the exact format requested. Data for 1996-97 are not available for both England and North Yorkshire. Figures for North Yorkshire County are not collected. Data for England and for North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trusts (PCT) are available for 2006-07.
Detailed Information on specific diseases that can be caused by smoking for England 2006-07 is available from the Statistics on Smoking: England, 2008. This information can be found in table 5.2 on page 83. This publication has already been placed in the Library.
Figures are available and provided on the number of admissions in National Health Service hospitals for those aged 35 and over with a primary diagnosis of diseases that can be caused by smoking and estimates of the number of those admissions that are attributable to smoking.
The following table shows the number of admissions for those aged 35 and over with a primary diagnosis of various diseases that can be caused by smoking and estimates of the number of those admissions that can be attributed to smoking. Figures have been provided for 2006-07 in England and for North Yorkshire and York PCT. It is acknowledged that not all of the observed admissions included in the table will be attributable to smoking as there are other contributory factors to these diseases. Therefore the relative risks of these diseases for current and ex-smokers, compared to non-smokers have been used to estimate smoking-attributable admissions.
Number Observed admissions4 Smoking attributable admissions5 England 1,431,831 445,100 North Yorkshire and York PCT 22,053 6,800 Notes: 1 The data include private patients in NHS hospitals (but not private patients in private hospitals). 2 A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. 3 The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and 7 prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the hospital episode statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital. 4 Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data. Observed admissions only includes those where gender was recorded 5 Estimated attributable number, rounded to the nearest 100