FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3355
You asked
Please supply the following information:
Hospital admissions between Jan 20 – Dec 21 where the patient presented to the hospital for Covid 19 related issues
Hospital admissions between Jan 20 – Dec 21 where the patient presented to the hospital for any other reason than Covid 19 related issues and then tested positive after admission.
Where the patient contracted Covid in hospital please provide, if possible, the source of transmission either by Staff or other Patients.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We do not hold up-to-date information on hospitalisations. Our data on hospital episodes is obtained from the Hospital Episode Statistics published by NHS Digital with an approximately 3 month delay. Therefore, we use this data to determine pre-existing conditions and general health of individuals, but not to analyse recent hospitalisations due to COVID-19. NHS Digital would hold data on hospital acquired covid, as the hospital would PCR test on the patient at admission.
NHS Digital can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk, and by telephone at 0300 303 5678.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) publish data that could help answer your enquiry. They publish a weekly surveillance report which looks at the impact on hospitalisations, infection, vaccine effectiveness and COVID-19 mortality. They can be contacted on InformationRights@UKHSA.gov.uk.
The UKHSA weekly surveillance report includes numbers of COVID-19 hospitalisations and numbers of COVID-19 deaths within 28 and 60 days of positive specimen or with COVID-19 reported on death certificate for 4 week periods, by vaccination status and age group, where vaccination status is defined on the date of infection. The report also includes mortality rates by vaccination status, where NIMS is used for the denominator.