FOI Ref: FOI/2022/3680
You asked
Under the FOI Act can you please provide me with information relating to cardiac arrests - actual numbers of incidents plus deaths resulting from them for the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021?
Please break down the data by sex and by age - under 50 and over 50 for both sexes please.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
ONS are responsible for the production of mortality statistics for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration.
Cardiac arrest incidents
ONS do not hold information on the number of reported cardiac arrests in England and Wales. We are only notified of deaths with the involvement of a cardiac arrest following a death registration. If the cardiac arrest was deemed to be the underlying cause of death or a contributing factor by a certifying doctor, then this would be published in our mortality figures. If an individual suffered a cardiac arrest and then recovered, ONS would not obtain that information. NHS Digital may be able to provide this information.
They can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk, and by telephone at 0300 303 5678.
Cardiac arrest mortality data
ONS do hold mortality data for deaths due to cardiac arrest for deaths that were registered between 2013-2020. This information is available as part of the explorable dataset on our NOMIS webservice. Deaths due to cardiac arrest are coded to I46 and can be extracted by five-year age groups.
- Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).
- Select Age - All ages or 5-year age bands.
- Select Gender - Total or Male/Female.
Select rates - All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.
- Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available). (I46)
- Select format (Excel or CSV for example)
ONS have not yet finalised analysis of cardiac arrest mortality for 2021. However, we can produce this for you as a bespoke request split by sex and your bespoke age groups. 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).
Such enquiries should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.