FOI Ref: FOI/2021/2874
You asked
Please supply data that outlines how many people have passed away "from COVID" and not "with COVID" at Doncaster and Bassetlaw hospitals and also how many people have passed away when being on a mechanically ventilated bed who didn't have COVID.
Please supply the information from March 2020 to present date.
We said
Thank you for your request.
Unfortunately, we are unable to disclose the data you have requested by named hospital as it is considered personal information. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it an offence to disclose information held by the Statistics Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual or a body corporate. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individual bodies can be identified, we find that Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies. Section 44 is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.
We do report weekly deaths involving COVID-19 by place of occurrence in our Death registrations and occurrences by local authority and health board publication, which is updated every Tuesday. We use the term "involving COVID-19" where COVID-19 is either the underlying cause or contributory mention on the death certificate, and the term "due to" when COVID-19 is the underlying cause.
| Area code | Area name | Hospital |
|---|---|---|
| E07000171 | Bassetlaw | 54 |
| E08000017 | Doncaster | 187 |
Download this table Death registrations involving COVID-19 by local authority, from 2 January 2021 registered up to the 27 August 2021, England and Wales
.xls .csv
| Area code | Area name | Hospital |
|---|---|---|
| E07000171 | Bassetlaw | 123 |
| E08000017 | Doncaster | 453 |
Download this table Death registrations involving COVID-19 by local authority, from 1 January 2020 registered up to the 1 January 2021, England and Wales
.xls .csvIf this does not meet your needs, we may be able to create a custom output. Information on deaths by specific cause and place of occurrence for 2020, along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). We are unable to provide this service for 2021 data, as this is still in provisional format and subject to change.
Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.