Coronavirus: Patients
(asked on 6th May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2020 to Question 37551 on Coronavirus: Learning Disability, what data (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) the Office for National Statistics is collecting on the (i) demographic and (ii) protected characteristics of people that have (A) been diagnosed with and (B) died from covid-19.
Information on COVID-19 deaths of people with a learning disability notified to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review programme is available on the NHS England website at the following link:
NHS England publishes COVID-19 daily deaths of people who have died in hospitals in England and had tested positive for COVID-19 or where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/
These daily reports include a breakdown by such criteria as reporting trust, region, age, ethnicity, gender and specific pre-existing conditions, including learning disability and/or autism.
Public Health England is leading a rapid review to better understand how different factors such as ethnicity, deprivation, age, sex (male and female) and obesity can impact on how people are affected by COVID-19. The report is being finalised and will be published shortly.