Written question WQ88533
- Asked by
- Joel JamesConservative
- To be answered by
- Minister for Health and Social Services
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 6 days
Question
Will the Minister provide a breakdown of hospital admissions due to liver disease at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board between January and December 2022?
Answer
Answered by Minister for Health and Social Services
The data requested are not held centrally by the Welsh Government. Data showing the number of admissions by primary diagnosis and Local Health Board are published by Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) in its Patient Episode Database for Wales (PEDW) tables. Data for 2022 are not yet available. The latest available data show there were 244 admissions in Cardiff and Vale UHB in 2020/21 where the primary diagnosis was for ‘Diseases of liver’.