FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3463
You asked
Please supply the number of people with covid in Intensive care in both Blackpool Victoria Hospital and Widnes Hospital in Merseyside. Please supply their vaccination status and whether or not they were admitted with Covid. Please take the data from 1st October 21 and 30th December 21.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We do not hold up-to-date information on hospitalisations. Our data on hospital episodes is obtained from the Hospital Episode Statistics published by NHS Digital with an approximately 3 month delay. Therefore, we use this data to determine pre-existing conditions and general health of individuals, but not to analyse recent hospitalisations due to COVID-19.
This data is held by NHS Digital, so they may be better placed to answer your query. They can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk and by telephone at 0300 303 5678.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) publish data that could help answer your enquiry. They publish a weekly surveillance report which looks at the impact on hospitalisations, infection, vaccine effectiveness and COVID-19 mortality. They can be contacted on InformationRights@UKHSA.gov.uk.