COVID & non-COVID Care Home Deaths By Region (part 1)
Regional analysis of weekly COVID & non-COVID care home deaths in England & Wales 2020-2022 (rev 1.2)
This morning we are going to take a closer look at the first wave of an alleged novel virus as it swept through the care homes of England & Wales. Before we do this we need to understand that the data I am throwing about are deaths by date of registration and not by date of death. The Office for National Statistics prefer to produce tables by date of registration, yet at the same time they acknowledge issues arising from administrative delays, which seems a trifle bonkers to me. When pressed on the matter here’s what an officer had to say…
Legally a person has 5 days to register a death with the General Register Office. These registrations come through to ONS on a daily basis where they are loaded on to our system for validation and coding. Some deaths are registered weeks or even months after the date of death; see our report on registration delays here which gives more detail on why these delays occur.
An occurrence and registration week for deaths begins each Saturday and runs to the…