BHRUT supply Asthma statistics today

 Thank you to BHRUT for supplying asthma statistics earlier today. My request is listed below, BHRUT would not supply full postcodes, but would supply the first half plus one other digit of the second half.

If existing research is correct, this information should point to asthma attendance linked to living nearby to busy roads. 

There is a lot of information provided so if anyone wants to investigate as well they are very welcome.

The data is at 6838 & the 6804 dated 1st September the link is https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/asthma_statistics?nocache=incoming-1631294#incoming-1631294

 

Dear Mr Walker

 

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI) request ref: 6842

 

Thank you for your further email dated 10 August 2020 in response to our email to you of the same dated under reference FOI 6804.    

 

Request

I am writing to request an internal review of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Asthma Statistics'. your reference is 6804.

Thank you for the 6000 lines of data provided.

(A) I requested A&E attendances per your point (1) (b) per your letter to me dated 10th August 2020 information about A&E attendances due to asthma which did not need in-patient care.

While I welcome BHRUT's decision to provide 6000 lines of data, I ask for internal review for BHRUT to provide totals.
For example I seek the
Total attendances for due to asthma at KGH & QH for 2018 and 2019

KGH 2018 1000
QH   2018  2084
KGH 2019  1000
QH 2019   1916
Total           6000
My figures to arrive at a 6000 total are just guesses I seek BHRUT's information which appears relatively easy for BHRUT to interrogate your data base to obtain.

(B) While BHRUT has supplied children attending A&E for asthma amongst the 6000 data sets sent, I seek the total numbers of children at KGH and QH for 2018 and 2019 as separate figures for each hospital. A total of 4 pieces of information per the template at my paragraph (A) above.

(C) Per my internal review request for 6784, I seek the first character of the second half of a postcode, For example if the first half is IG3  (8 or 9) or RM17 (I seek 5,6 or 9)

(D) I seek postcode totals, for each of the two years and hospital locations. For example IG3 (or IG3 8 and 9 if my appeal is successful) how many went to KGH in 2018 and 2019, the same for QH and the numbers of children and adults.

Substantial development is being planned close to busy roads. It is reasonable for BHRUT to supply more information for the public to discover if living near a main road is linked to increased asthma risk.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/asthma_statistics

 

Response

Please note The Freedom of Information Act obliges us to share any recorded information that is held at the time of a request being made. It does not require us to create a response in order to comply with a request.  What we have provided is an excel sheet with the data you have requested.  In order to assist you further, we have added filters that will allow you to select the information you require at any one time.

 

For instance, by selecting KGH in the year 2018, you can see at the bottom of the sheet that there were 1409 attendances. You can then add a further filter for paediatric patients and this will provide a figure at the bottom of the sheet of 611 patients.

We have revised the postcodes as per your request.

Your request in part (D) is new and was not requested as part of your initial enquiries. As per explanation above, the filters will allow you to extract the data as you need and in any combination that you require.

The attached excel sheet therefore answers your request in full. 

 

 

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Yours sincerely