FOI Ref: ​FOI/2022/3567

You asked

Please supply the number of deaths from flu virus on each day in winter 2017/18 (1 December 2017 to 23 March 2018 inclusive).

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We do not hold analysis of daily deaths due to influenzas for the winter period of 2017 to 2018.

Within our Excess winter mortality in England and Wales we have published daily deaths for this period, but have not disaggregated this to specific causes.

In figure 6 of this publication, we have published weekly deaths and consultation rates by Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Public Health Wales (PHW) of Influenza Like Illnesses (ILI).

Annual numbers of deaths where influenza was the underlying cause can be obtained via NOMIS for England and Wales, 2013 to 2020.  All of the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded by ONS using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Influenza can be identified using ICD-10 codes J09-J11.  You can also find this information in our Deaths Registered Series.

We can create daily deaths due to influenza as a bespoke data 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). Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.