AQW 1265/22-27

Mr Peter McReynolds
Alliance Party
East Belfast

Tabled Date: 10/06/2022
Answered On Date: 14/06/2022
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people living with asthma in (i) Northern Ireland; and, (ii) East Belfast.

Answer:

Asthma is one of the disease registers in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF); QOF disease prevalence data is published annually and the Asthma register contains the number of patients with asthma, excluding those who have had no prescription for asthma-related drugs in the last 12 months. As at 31st March 2022, there were 126,442 people on the Asthma register for Northern Ireland. QOF disease prevalence data is also available and published at GP Federation level; at 31st March 2022, there were 7,237 people on the Asthma register for the East Belfast GP Federation.

Further information on QOF disease prevalence data is available at:

https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/articles/prevalence-statistics.