Question reference: S5W-34772
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 25 January 2021
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 3 February 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the deaths related to COVID-19 that occurred in hospitals were care home residents who had been admitted to hospital, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
NRS published one-off analysis in June 2020 regarding deaths of care home residents involving COVID-19 which included deaths in hospital at a Scotland level. In week 20 (week ending 17 th May 2020) there were 154 COVID-19 deaths of people whose usual residence was a care home and who died in hospital. The represents 9.3% of COVID-19 hospital deaths involving people resident in care homes.
The analysis is available here:
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/covid19/covid-deaths-care-home-residents.xlsx .