FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3177
You asked
Please supply how many deaths there were in England from Pneumocystis Jirovecii pneumonia (previously known as PCP) each year beginning 2011 through to 2021.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We are responsible for producing mortality statistics for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration. For Scotland and Northern Ireland statistics please contact National Records Scotland and NISRA respectively.
When a death is registered, all of the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) the coded mortality data available up to end of December 2020 is coded to version 2014 of the ICD10 framework.
From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules. The underlying cause of death is defined by World Health Organisation (WHO) as:
a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or
b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury
Deaths that are registered with pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia are coded to B206.
2001-2020
We have published a back series as part of our 21st century mortality, which contains all-cause mortality data by ICD code, age and sex, 2001-2020, England and Wales. You can filter on 'column A' for each year and filter on ICD-10 code B206.
2021
Whilst we hold mortality data for deaths that were registered in 2021, we have not completed analysis on this yet. We will be able to produce this for you as a bespoke request. 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).
As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.
Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.