FOI Ref: FOI/2022/4055
You asked
Please supply hospital admission data reported by days of positivity to SARS-CoV-2 since admission.
For clarity: if someone was SARS-CoV-2 positive when admitted, that would be Day 0, if found positive after 5 days, Day 5 and so on.
The period to be covered is March 2020 to date in monthly strata.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Daily information on hospital admissions of COVID-19 patients (suspected and confirmed) and hospitalisation for Wales are published via StatsWales. Figures show the number of admissions and people in hospital, by hospital type, local health board and date.
We publish Hospital admissions with coronavirus, but this information is for England only and we do not hold the most up-to-date information on hospitalisations. Our data on hospital episodes is obtained from the Hospital Episode Statistics published by NHS Digital, with an approximate 3 month delay. We use this data to determine pre-existing conditions and general health of individuals, but not to analyse recent hospitalisations due to COVID-19.
Therefore, NHS Digital would be better placed to answer your enquiry. They can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk, and by telephone at 0300 303 5678.
If you would like to discuss your enquiry further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.