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Darent Valley Hospital: Asthma

Answer

Data on the number of people hospitalised or admitted is not recorded. Finished Admission Episodes (FAE) are recorded, although these are not substitutions for counts of people, as the same person may have been admitted to hospital on more than one occasion within any given time period.

The following table shows a count of FAEs where there was a primary diagnosis of all respiratory conditions, for patients aged 70 years old or over, at Darent Valley Hospital for the period 2014/15 to 2023/24:

Year	Number of FAEs for patients over aged 70 years old
2014/15	1,585
2015/16	1,610
2016/17	1,920
2017/18	2,150
2018/19	2,065
2019/20	2,075
2020/21	1,230
2021/22	1,740
2022/23	1,985
2023/24	2,075

The following table shows a count of FAEs where there was a primary diagnosis of asthma, for patients aged zero to 17 years old, at Darent Valley Hospital for the period 2014/15 to 2023/24:

Year	Number of FAEs for patients aged zero to 17 years old
2014/15	130
2015/16	110
2016/17	95
2017/18	100
2018/19	100
2019/20	110
2020/21	65
2021/22	150
2022/23	100
2023/24	120

The following table shows a count of FAEs where there was a primary diagnosis of all respiratory conditions, for patients aged less than one years old, at Darent Valley Hospital for the period 2014/15 to 2023/24:

Year	Number of FAEs for patients aged under one years old
2014/15	645
2015/16	795
2016/17	935
2017/18	915
2018/19	1,030
2019/20	1,155
2020/21	260
2021/22	1,465
2022/23	1,740
2023/24	1,715

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

9099

Session

2024-26

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Children Admissions Asthma Darent Valley Hospital

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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