FOI/2022/4420
You asked
Please can you tell me:
The number of people who suffered a heart attack or stroke between 1st January and 30th June 2021, including those who died and who survived.
The number of people who suffered a heart attack or stroke between 1st January and 30th June 2019, including those who died and who survived.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry, please find below our response:
We do not hold information on those who have suffered with stroke or heart attacks and have survived. NHS Digital may be better placed to provide you with these statistics. They can be contacted by email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk.
However, we can provide you with mortality statistics. We are responsible for producing mortality statistics for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration. When a death is registered, all the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) the coded mortality data available up to end of December 2019 is coded to version 2014 of the ICD10 framework. Stroke is coded under the ICD-10 code 'I64'. Cardiac arrest is coded under the ICD-10 code 'I46'.
You can view a back series of data as part of our 21st century mortality, which contains all-cause mortality data by ICD code, age and sex, 2001-2021, England and Wales. You can filter on column A on the ICD codes above and this will provide you with mortality figures for stroke and cardiac arrest.
We have also published mortality data by leading cause groups split by age up to 2021 in our Deaths registered series in England and Wales. We have also published annual mortality data by cause from 2013-2021 is available as part of our explorable dataset on our NOMIS webservice. This explorable dataset can be used to search for annual deaths by ICD codes I64 and I46 for 2019. Please note, this information is not available six-month intervals.
Please see the following instructions for our NOMIS webservice:
Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).
Select Age - All ages or 5 year age bands.
- Select Gender - Total or Male/Female
- Select rates - All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.
- Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available). I64 and I46
- Select format (Excel or CSV for example)
Deaths from cardiac arrest and stroke deaths between January to June for 2019, 2020 and 2021 specifically is available to order as bespoke analysis. We would advise consulting with the Health Data customer service desk, who will be able to discuss your request further. Such services would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure controls, resources, and agreement of costs. If you would like to request this bespoke dataset, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk to discuss your enquiry further. Please note, there may be a charge for this work which would be subject to our charging policy.
If you have any questions about this data, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.