Childhood asthma in London 2006 to 2020

​FOI/2021/2778

You asked

Please supply any data on childhood asthma in London that there is available. In particular diagnoses rates, emergency hospital admissions, mortality rates in London in the age category of under 19’s and between the years of 2006-2020.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We do not hold data on hospitalisations or diagnosis rates for asthma. NHS Digital may be better placed to answer your query. They can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk, and by telephone at 0300 303 5678.

The NOMIS webservice will provide deaths involving Asthma by specific age group and geography for 2020-2013. Underlying cause of death is coded from the death certificate using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Below are the ICD-10 codes you will require to identify deaths from each of the causes you have listed:

Asthma J45 – J46

We also have the following User Requested data sets available:

Number of monthly deaths for asthma and diseases of the respiratory system in London, 2001 to 2016

Number of death occurrences for asthma, by London borough, 2009 to 2016

If this does not meet your needs, we may be able to create a custom output. Information on asthma deaths by specific age group and location for 2006 -- 2020, along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.