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Could you please provide details of whether or not Covid-19 has been isolated?
If it has, could you please provide the number of deaths from the isolated Covid-19 only and no underlying health issues at:
Wythenshaw Hospital, Southmore Road, Manchester, M23 9lt
Between the dates of September 1 - December 31 2020.
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Thank you for your request. Please see the following answers to your questions.
Could you please provide details of whether or not Covid-19 has been isolated?
Numbers of deaths where COVID-19 was recorded as the sole condition on the death certificate for March to June 2020 can be found here: Deaths involving COVID-19, England and Wales. We put this publication on hold when numbers of deaths fell in Summer 2020 but due to the subsequent increase, we will be releasing an update soon analysing data from July onwards. The publication date will be announced via our Release Calendar.
We define a pre-existing condition as the last health condition mentioned on the first part of the death certificate when it came before the coronavirus (COVID-19) or was an independent contributory factor in the death, mentioned in part II. Where only COVID-19 was recorded on the death certificate, or COVID-19 and subsequent conditions caused by COVID-19 were recorded, we refer to these deaths as having "No pre-existing conditions".
Of the 50,335 deaths that occurred in March to June 2020 involving COVID-19 in England and Wales, 45,859 (91.1%) had at least one pre-existing condition, while 4,476 (8.9%) had none.
If it has, could you please provide the number of deaths from the isolated Covid-19 only and no underlying health issues at:
Wythenshaw Hospital, Southmore Road, Manchester, M23 9lt
Between the dates of September 1 - December 31 2020.
In order to provide the information requested, we would need to create bespoke analysis, which we are not obliged to do under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Furthermore, even if we were to create this, we do not release data at individual hospital level because it would pose a disclosure risk whereby personal information could potentially be identified from the data. For the same reason, we have not yet analysed the number of deaths where COVID-19 was the sole condition by local authority or health board. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) makes it an 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 individuals that are deceased.
However, please see the following available analysis related to your request, which may be of interest:
Provisional counts of the number of deaths involving COVID-19 for England and Wales can be found in the latest provisional weekly deaths publication.
This publication includes a breakdown of deaths 'due to' COVID-19 (where it was recorded as the underlying cause of death) and deaths 'involving' COVID-19 (where it was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate). Please see the excel download file underneath Figure 2 for this information.
Numbers of deaths involving COVID-19 by local authority, health board and place of death (home; hospital; hospice; care home; elsewhere) are also available in the following datasets: Deaths registered weekly related datasets.