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DIRECTORATE FOR COVID PUBLIC HEALTH COVID : Health and Social Care Analysis |
Craig McComb
[email protected]
Our Reference: 202100146221
Your Reference: request-722044-4f69c027
16 February 2021
Dear Craig McComb,
REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002 (FOISA)
Thank you for your request dated 27 January under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).
Your request
You asked for:
(I) total deaths in all of Scotland’s hospitals for the following years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020
(ii) total deaths in hospitals in 2020 with covid coded against their stay.
(iii) total deaths in hospitals in 2020 with covid only coded against their stay (no underlying health conditions)
(iv) how many patients have been submitted to hospitals in Scotland with covid coded against their admission.
(V) how many patients have been released from hospital who had covid coded against their admission but were healthy enough to leave hospital & recovered.
Response to your request
All of the information you have requested is available from the ScottishGovernment, National Records of Scotland(NRS) and Public Health Scotland (PHS) websites. Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you.
- This is available from NRS at: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/covid19/locationdeath-year-2010-2019.xlsx for 2015-2019 and https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/covid19stats (Table 2 of Excel spreadsheet for 2020)
- This is available from NRS at: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/covid19stats (Table 1 of Excel spreadsheet)
- This is available from NRS at: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/covid19/coviddeaths-21-data-week-02.xlsx (Figure 9 data)
- This is available from the PHS dashboard at:
https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview - As at 16th February 12,938 inpatients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged from hospital since 5 March 2020. This is available on the ScottishGovernment website at:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/
However, you may wish to contact NRS at [email protected] or PHS at [email protected] who may be able to help you further. NRS and PHS are responsible for the majority of the data you are interested in.
Your right to request a review
If you are unhappy with this response to your FOIrequest, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response, by writing to Richard Foggo ([email protected]). Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 40 working days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review in accordance with FOISA as soon as possible, and not later than 20 working days from the day following the date we receive your review request.
If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner. More detailed information on your appeal rights is available on the Commissioner’s website at: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Unhappywiththeresponse/AppealingtoCommissioner.aspx.
Yours sincerely
Gregor Boyd
HSCA: Head of Health and Social Care Analysis