Click for Figure 4. In 1998 there were over 330,000 consultations with a GP for asthma. The number and cost of prescriptions for medicines to treat asthma has increased in recent years. Hospital in-patient admissions Since the early 1990s, the total number of hospital admissions for asthma has decreased. There are no official figures for the cumulative total number of people with occupational asthma in Scotland.
Figures only relate to the number of new cases in the UK each year.
The centre in Scotland actually reported incidences higher than the average for the UK with 21.4 per cent reporting a diagnosis of asthma and 36.7 per cent reporting wheeze within the last 12 months. Health Survey for Scotland 1995. Trend in occurrence of asthma among children and young adults. Austin JB, Russell G, Adam MG et al. Prevalence of asthma and wheeze in the Highlands of Scotland.