OXON: The number of people admitted to hospital with pneumonia looks set to increase for the third year running.
With four months still to go until the end of the financial year 2012/13 1,485 people with pneumonia have already been admitted to hospital in Oxfordshire.
Last year 1,615 people were admitted to Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia and the year before it was 1,608 people.
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