Information is not available in the format requested.
Figures are available for the number of people registered with asthma in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), introduced as part of the new General Medical Services contract on 1 April 2004. QOF data are available from 2004-05 and information has been provided broken down by primary care trust (PCT) of responsibility. The QOF disease register reporting does not collect information on ages, so the data is not split by age group.
We have provided a count of finished admission episodes where the primary diagnosis was asthma by age group and by PCT of residence in London for the years 2000-01 to 2008-09.
Information on the number of people treated by a general practitioner as a result of asthma, is not collected centrally.
Information is provided from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on the number of deaths where asthma was the underlying cause of death for persons in each age group in each London borough, for the years 2000-08 (the latest year available) combined. The number of deaths at this level of detail is extremely small. Consequently, figures for individual years have not been provided, in line with ONS policy on protecting confidentiality within birth and death statistics.
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Information is not collected in the format requested. The following tables show the number of items prescribed for asthma-related conditions in London primary care trusts (PCTs) from 2006 to 2009 and the number of finished consultant episode bed days where the primary diagnosis was asthma, given by PCT of residence in London for the years 2000-01 to 2008-09.
Items PCT 2006 2007 2008 20091 Barking and Dagenham 127,193 130,402 134,237 102,722 Barnet 177,622 179,357 181,923 136,527 Bexley Care Trust 136,886 140,623 139,635 105,148 Brent Teaching 150,734 155,158 159,531 119,541 Bromley 174,199 174,441 176,350 131,643 Camden 97,679 96,328 99,515 74,481 City and Hackney Teaching 114,129 115,961 115,826 86,550 Croydon 187,823 191,036 196,150 146,878 Ealing 181,177 184,038 184,875 140,683 Enfield 159,942 160,070 165,812 125,442 Greenwich Teaching 165,457 163,219 165,706 125,681 Hammersmith and Fulham 84,273 87,006 86,142 65,544 Haringey Teaching 134,218 137,599 137,925 104,639 Harrow 139,146 143,961 147,964 110,496 Havering 156,823 168,798 178,363 136,048 Hillingdon 154,110 155,412 158,362 118,883 Hounslow 131,948 137,549 138,866 105,842 Islington 111,872 114,330 118,999 89,951 Kensington and Chelsea 65,167 67,858 67,850 51,952 Kingston 93,560 94,220 95,133 70,913 Lambeth 144,873 143,794 148,327 110,021 Lewisham 160,751 162,154 162,727 122,167 Newham 174,827 178,654 187,437 145,500 Redbridge 130,595 133,845 137,194 105,240 Richmond and Twickenham 90,861 92,054 95,092 72,145 Southwark 138,791 141,913 143,623 107,918 Sutton and Merton 212,941 221,283 230,477 172,680 Tower Hamlets 126,113 126,929 128,528 97,768 Waltham Forest 134,323 137,058 139,595 106,985 Wandsworth Teaching 149,320 148,156 146,639 112,369 Westminster 86,734 91,214 93,804 72,086 Total 4,294,087 4,374,420 4,462,607 3,374,443 1 January to September. Notes: 1. The PACT system covers prescriptions prescribed by general practitioners (GPs), nurses, pharmacists and others in England and dispensed in the community in the United Kingdom. For data at PCT level, prescriptions written by a prescriber located in a particular PCT but dispensed outside that PCT will be included in the PCT in which the prescriber is based. Prescriptions written in England but dispensed outside England are included. Prescriptions written in hospitals/clinics that are dispensed in the community, prescriptions dispensed in hospitals, dental prescribing and private prescriptions are not included in PACT data. It is important to note this as some British National Formulary (BNF) sections have a high proportion of prescriptions written in hospitals that are dispensed in the community. For example, BNF chapter 4, “Central Nervous System” has a fair proportion of items written in mental health clinics that are dispensed in the community—these prescriptions are not included in PACT data. 2. Data are held for 60 months and so at the moment the only complete years available are 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Complete data for 2009 cannot be released until after the publication of the associated National Statistic in April 2010 and so only data for January to September is presented here. 3. Prescriptions are written on a prescription form known as a FP10. Each single item written on the form is counted as a prescription item. 4. The term “asthma-related conditions” has been taken to mean asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease since they are treated with the same medications, namely those classified under sections 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 of the BNF. Source: Prescribing Analysis and CosT (PACT) system.
PCT of residence PCT code 2008-09 2007-08 2006-07 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02 2000-01 Barking and Dagenham PCT 5C2 695 807 1,015 1,030 1,249 934 781 573 619 Barnet PCT 5A9 910 656 1,364 1,278 1,230 1,687 1,339 926 1,406 Bexley Care Trust TAK 725 694 698 695 927 953 — — — Bexley PCT 5AX — — — — — — 1,030 676 688 Brent Teaching PCT 5K5 1,150 1,177 1,183 1,439 1,505 1,408 1,270 516 747 Bromley PCT 5A7 599 756 1,027 1,375 1,251 1,118 1,295 579 1,102 Camden PCT 5K7 587 670 800 672 987 1,077 1,377 879 856 City and Hackney Teaching PCT 5C3 949 937 1,134 1,898 1,331 1,375 1,452 1,120 1,139 Croydon PCT 5K9 1,533 1,608 1,392 1,598 1,920 1,556 971 1,246 1,290 Ealing PCT 5HX 2,021 1,810 2,002 1,890 2,064 2,714 1,687 1,661 1,790 Enfield PCT 5C1 1,046 603 1,020 921 971 799 785 1,311 1,038 Greenwich Teaching PCT 5A8 572 554 690 873 843 1,363 841 957 824 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 5H1 526 801 752 787 799 722 758 1,107 1,078 Haringey Teaching PCT 5C9 899 1,049 1,190 1,281 1,242 819 907 768 1,290 Harrow PCT 5K6 718 674 628 729 685 682 704 555 636 Havering PCT 5A4 475 549 563 768 824 992 856 773 678 Hillingdon PCT 5AT 831 783 530 658 661 597 818 733 1,004 Hounslow PCT 5HY 1,138 1,178 684 1,409 1,482 1,798 1,298 1,317 1,412 Islington PCT 5K8 1,182 1,238 1,325 1,287 1,037 980 809 868 855 Kensington and Chelsea PCT 5LA 305 389 438 612 346 372 504 483 802 Kingston PCT 5A5 559 630 563 709 842 669 701 707 554 Lambeth PCT 5LD 1,038 1,030 1,178 1,136 1,195 1,260 1,440 1,526 1,298 Lewisham PCT 5LF 942 1,015 1,148 1,188 1,000 1,086 1,229 1,047 1,264 Newham PCT 5C5 1,137 1,144 1,302 1,037 1,212 1,244 1,470 1,471 1,389 Redbridge PCT 5NA 1,140 1,430 1,399 1,558 1,429 1,383 — — — Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford PCT 5C7 — — — — — — 616 381 358 Redbridge PCT 5C8 — — — — — — 622 617 681 Richmond and Twickenham PCT 5M6 601 504 456 478 630 800 737 418 446 Southwark PCT 5LE 877 800 982 1,052 1,211 1,658 1,198 1,288 1,225 Sutton and Merton PCT 5M7 1,210 1,302 1,062 995 1,336 1,271 1,076 1,465 1,576 Tower Hamlets PCT 5C4 816 1,048 806 1,304 1,388 1,173 1,058 1,401 1,073 Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonstone PCT 5C6 — — — — — — 608 458 614 Waltham Forest PCT 5NC 871 834 900 1,076 1,069 1,109 — — — Wandsworth PCT 5LG 962 939 809 1,076 1,116 1,130 1,230 1,063 1,264 Westminster PCT 5LC 677 619 722 814 963 648 809 1,153 1,044 Notes: 1. A finished consultant episode (FCE) is defined as a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one health care provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Please note that the figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year. 2. Episode duration/bed days: episode duration is calculated as the difference in days between the episode start date and the episode end date, where both are given. Episode duration is based on FCEs and applies only to ordinary admissions, i.e. day cases are excluded (unless otherwise stated). 3. The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the HES data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital. 4. PCT Changes: In July 2006, the NHS reorganised strategic health authorities (SHA) and PCTs in England from 28 SHAs into 10, and from 303 PCTs into 152. As a result, data from 2006-07 onwards is not directly comparable with previous years. In particular, it is noted that there was a change in the number of PCTs that constituted the London boroughs around 2003-04: Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonstone PCT became Waltham Forest PCT; Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford PCT and Redbridge PCT became Redbridge PCT; and Bexley PCT became Bexley Care Trust. 5. Assessing growth through time: HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. The quality and coverage of the data have improved over time. These improvements in information submitted by the NHS have been particularly marked in the earlier years and need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. Some of the increase in figures for later years (particularly 2006-07 onwards) may be due to the improvement in the coverage of independent sector activity. Changes in NHS practice also need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. For example, a number of procedures may now be undertaken in out-patient settings and may no longer be accounted for in the HES data. This may account for any reductions in activity over time. 6. Data quality: HES are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and PCTs in England. Data is also received from a number of independent sector organisations for activity commissioned by the English NHS. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data via HES processes. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care.
The Department has made no such estimate.