Friday 31 October 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8845
Date Request Received: 12/08/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 19/08/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Air pollution exposure
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please provide the following information, broken down by month, between January 2020 and July 2025 inclusive. If this is not possible, please instead provide it broken down by calendar year, 2020 to 2025 inclusive. The number of times a patient was admitted where exposure to air pollution (International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10) code Z581)* was recorded as a contributing factor to the admission. (* I understand this is the code used by NHS trusts to log exposure to air pollution, but if your trust uses a different code or some other system, please still provide the relevant data) 1a. If possible, please tell me what the primary diagnosis was for each of these admissions. (For clarity, I want to know total numbers admitted with each primary diagnosis — for example, if 45 people were admitted with a primary diagnosis of asthma where exposure to air pollution was identified as a contributing factor.) | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response in the attached file. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13194 - FOI_8845 - Air pollution exposure - External File.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: Please tell me how many of the patients in question 1 subsequently died in hospital. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see our response in the attached file. | |
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