Robin Sharp (Chair- Brent Patient Voice) has asked Councillor Hirani, Cabinet
Member for Public Health, Leisure & Culture a number of questions about the impact of Covid19 in Brent. Cllr Hirani's answers are in italics. There is provision for him to ask a follow-up question at the Council meeting on July 13th.
1(a) What
is the latest number of deaths in Brent from or related to Covid-19?
1(a) According
to the latest Office for National statistics figures, the number of COVID-19
related deaths is 484 as up to the 19th of June 2020.
These are provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in Brent.
1(b) What
is the latest number of “excess” deaths in Brent compared to the same period
last year (i.e. from the start of the pandemic in the UK)
1(b) The
provisional number of excess deaths from the beginning of the pandemic until
May 31st compared to the same period in 2019 is
482.
1(c) Is
there any estimated breakdown of the number of these excess deaths that may be
from Covid-19 and those arising because the person dying did not access care
due to the NHS focus on Covid-19? Can ward level figures be supplied please?
1(c) It
is likely the vast majority of excess deaths were due to Covid-19. There is no
information available on deaths arising due to a person dying as a result of
the individual not accessing NHS care.
2. In
the case where ONS have supplied a breakdown of Covid-19 deaths at ward level
for Brent have any contributory factors for especially high deathrates in
particular wards been provisionally identified, such as presence of care homes,
one or more super-spreaders, a special event where transmissions might have
taken place?
2. The Office for
National Statistics does not supply this level of detail. Where it supplies
deaths at local level they are just a number of deaths in what is called a
Middle Super Output Area, a unit of geography used by the Office for National Statistics.
This can be converted into ward level information approximately.There is no
individual detail on the cases or the likely source of infection
3. Do
the deaths in Brent relate to the place of death, e.g. a hospital, or to the
place of normal residence of the person who died?
3.The
Office for National statistics (ONS) data for Brent residents relates to the
place of normal residence.
4. Is there data
showing how
many died from Covid-19
in hospitals, in care or
other residential homes
and in
the community?
4. Below
is the provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in Brent, deaths
involving the coronavirus (COVID-19), by place of death for which data are
available. COVID-19 Deaths that occurred from 1st January 2020 up to 19th June
2020 but were registered up to 27th June 2020
