PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(12 November 2024)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have presented at A&E for a (a) heart attack and (b) stroke in each of the last ten years.

Asked by:
Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain)

Answer

Prior to 2020/21, the mechanism used to collect and record accident and emergency activity was not sufficiently granular to identify the requested conditions. However, NHS England can provide a count of attendances with a relevant primary diagnosis from 2020/21 onwards. The following table shows the number of attendances, broken down by the relevant diagnosis, from 2020/21 to 2023/24:

Year

Diagnosis

Attendances

2020/21

Stroke

110,756

2020/21

Heart Attack

28,209

2020/21

Cardiac Arrest

9,130

2021/22

Stroke

118,699

2021/22

Heart Attack

34,875

2021/22

Cardiac Arrest

10,301

2022/23

Stroke

120,731

2022/23

Heart Attack

35,524

2022/23

Cardiac Arrest

10,887

2023/24

Stroke

122,812

2023/24

Heart Attack

35,829

2023/24

Cardiac Arrest

10,185

Source: the data is from The Emergency Care Data Set, which is available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/emergency-care-data-set-ecds


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