Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:10 pm on 26 June 2018.
Data on the number of COPD-related admissions to emergency departments is not routinely collected by the Welsh Government. However, information from the patient episode database for Wales indicates there were 5,044 admissions in 2015 and 4,768 admissions in 2016—a fall of 5.5 per cent.