​FOI Reference: FOI/2022/4349

You asked

Please send me the total excess deaths in care homes in 2020 compared with the previous 6 years in the county of Gloucestershire, by the following district catchments:

Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester , Stroud and Tewkesbury

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We hold the following analysis Care home resident deaths registered in England and Wales, provisional which holds data for 2020 and 2021, however this does not disaggregate to the geography level you have requested.

Number of deaths in care homes notified to the Care Quality Commission, England provides Provisional counts of deaths in care homes caused by coronavirus (COVID-19) by local authority and holds data from 2020 to 2022.  We have also published Deaths in the care sector, England and Wales

We publish all cause and COVID-19 death registrations on a weekly basis in this dataset Death registrations and occurrences by local authority and place of death. Data is available from 2020 to August 2022 and this publication is updated every Tuesday.

Prior to 2020, we did not conduct analysis of deaths by place of occurrence as a regular output, however we do have some user requested data sets available.

Care home deaths by specified causes, England and Wales, deaths registered between 2001 and 2016

We can create your data requirements as a user requested data set. The analysis would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs under the ONS Charging policy where appropriate.

If you would like to discuss further or obtain a quote for this work, which is out with the Freedom of Information Act please contact the HALE Customer Services team on Health.Data@ons.gov.uk

As this information is reasonably accessible via another route, even if only accessible on payment, Section 21(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies.