Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people that have died in hospital as a result of covid-19 were admitted from care homes.

On 29 April 2020 the Government introduced a new method of reporting daily COVID-19 deaths so that it now includes reporting of deaths in all settings. More information can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/daily-death-reporting-now-includes-all-positive-covid-19-deaths

The number of people who have died in hospital as a result of COVID-19 and who were admitted from care homes, domiciliary care in the community or who were living in sheltered care before admission, is not currently available or published in the format requested.

Public Health England publishes the hospital admission rate for England in the national COVID-19 surveillance reports. However, this does not include information on which settings people have been admitted from. The surveillance reports are available to view at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports