You asked
Please provide the following information regarding staff & residents living or working at Abundant Grace Nursing Home, Firle road, Seaford, E.Sussex.
How many staff & residents were reported as COVID-19 positive between 13/05/20 and 29/05/20?
Have there been any COVID-19 cause of death cases reported between 13/03/20 and 29/05/20?
Have there been any deaths with the mention of additional COVID-19 as a contributory factor alongside other health related cause of death?
How many staff and how many residents have undergone Coronavirus testing between 13/03/30 and 29/05/20?
How many residents have had to self- isolate with suspected symptoms between 13/03/20 and 29/05/20?
How many staff have had to self-isolate at home between 13/03/20 and 29/05/20?
We said
Thank you for you enquiry.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with the specific information you have requested, regarding Abundant Grace Nursing Home. The figures that would be involved in an answer to this request would be very small and could prove to be disclosive. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it a criminal offence to release personal information. Personal information is any information held by the Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual or a body corporate. This includes deceased individuals. As disclosure of the requested information is prohibited by another enactment, the information is considered exempt by Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Section 44 is absolute exemption, so no test of the public interest is required.
However, we are able to provide the following datasets regarding COVID-19 deaths in the care sector and local authority:
The following publication: Deaths involving COVID-19 in the care sector, England and Wales, provides provisional counts of the number of deaths and age-standardised mortality rates involving the coronavirus (COVID-19) within the care sector occurring up to 1 May 2020 and registered up to 9 May 2020.
The following publication: Death registrations and occurrences by local authority and health board, provides care home deaths on a weekly basis by Local Authority. This is updated every Tuesday.
Unfortunately, we do not hold information relating to self-isolation or Coronavirus testing.
The Care Quality Commission may be better placed to answer your enquiry. They can be contacted via the following email address: information.access@cqc.org.uk.
Alternatively, they can be contacted via their online Freedom of Information contact form: https://surveys.cqc.org.uk/FreedomofInformationRequest.aspx.