Government of Jersey

Hospital admissions for heart complaints (FOI)

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Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 01 March 2022.
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Request

How many people have been admitted to hospital with heart related problems such as heart attacks? Over the past five years broken down per month.

Response

The table below shows the number of patients admitted each month with a recorded Acute Myocardial Infarction or Subsequent Myocardial Infarction.

Note that data are incomplete for 2020 and 2021 and should not be used to infer trends.

Admission Year and Month	No of Patients
2017, 01	22
2017, 02	14
2017, 03	7
2017, 04	11
2017, 05	7
2017, 06	9
2017, 07	9
2017, 08	13
2017, 09	19
2017, 10	8
2017, 11	11
2017, 12	10
2018, 01	14
2018, 02	9
2018, 03	14
2018, 04	7
2018, 05	12
2018, 06	8
2018, 07	11
2018, 08	11
2018, 09	10
2018, 10	13
2018, 11	5
2018, 12	15
2019, 01	16
2019, 02	15
2019, 03	10
2019, 04	13
2019, 05	19
2019, 06	10
2019, 07	7
2019, 08	7
2019, 09	15
2019, 10	8
2019, 11	6
2019, 12	14
2020, 01	9
2020, 02	14
2020, 03	6
2020, 04	<5
2020, 05	5
2020, 06	<5
2020, 07	16
2020, 08	11
2020, 09	8
2020, 10	15
2020, 11	10
2020, 12	6
2021, 01	<5
2021, 02	8
2021, 03	11
2021, 04	<5
2021, 05	10
2021, 06	10
2021, 07	5
2021, 08	9
2021, 09	6
2021, 10	13
2021, 11	10
2021, 12	9

Data Source: Hospital Patient Administration System (TrakCare, Report CDG4G)

The following previous response on Stroke and TIA admissions may be of interest:

Stroke and TIA statistics (FOI)

Addendum:

This response captures discharges from hospital where one of the following ICD-10 codes is recorded against the patient record.

I21 Acute myocardial infarction
I22 Subsequent myocardial infarction - Extension, recurrent, reinfarction – within 4 weeks

Disclosure control has been used to protect the privacy of patients by showing numbers fewer than five as <5, and Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

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