Admissions to hospital for heart attack and stroke (FOI)

Request

How many people have been admitted to hospital over the past 5 years with a heart attack or stroke, broken down into months?

Response

The data provided in this response represents all cases where either myocardial infarction (heart attack) or stroke were diagnosed in the course of an admission, irrespective of the reason for presentation or main condition treated.

Please note that data was derived from reporting by discharge date. As such, patients who were admitted prior to 1 January 2017 but discharged after this date will be included. For the same reason, patients admitted prior to 31 December 2021 but discharged after this date will not be included in the numbers.

Where numbers are small, disclosure control has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals and numbers fewer than five are represented as ‘<5’. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Table 1 attached shows the number of patients discharged from hospital each month where a patient was diagnosed with a myocardial infarction.

The following ICD-10 categories were used to extract this data:

Myocardial Infarction (MI)

I21: Acute myocardial infarction

I22: Subsequent myocardial infarction

Includes: subsequent / further myocardial infarction

extension to an existing MI

recurrent MI

reinfarction

Table 1.pdf

Article Applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.