Care Homes: Coronavirus

(asked on 29th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what processes his Department has put in place for the reporting of deaths resulting from covid-19 in care homes to the Care Quality Commission.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 11th May 2020

Information on deaths in care homes is collected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) through regulation 16 notifications of the CQC (Registration) Regulations 2009. Providers have always been able to report cause of death to the CQC via death notifications but since 10 April the CQC has amended its data collection form to make it easier to record and collate data about confirmed and suspected COVID-19 deaths. This data is published as part of the Office for National Statistics’ weekly reporting on deaths from COVID-19 in care homes. From 29 April, Government figures for COVID-19 deaths include all cases where there is a positive confirmed test for COVID-19, including deaths in care homes.

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