Our data from COVID-19 Insight: Issue 3

COVID-19 Insight: Issue 3

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New weekly outbreaks in care homes

This chart shows the weekly progression of outbreaks in each region (per 1,000 care homes). Care homes are only counted once, when they first experience an outbreak.

Source: PHE Covid-19 Outbreaks in care homes, cumulative figures from week commencing 09/03/20 to week commencing 22/06/20, published 2 July 2020.

Care homes with outbreaks by region

The figures in brackets show the number of care homes that PHE assign to each government region. All regions have increased by 1-4% since the last update. There are some very small differences with our own classification, this is likely to be as a result of new registration activity and/or service type descriptions.

Source: PHE Covid-19 Outbreaks in care homes, cumulative figures from week commencing 09/03/20 – week commencing 22/06/20, published 2 July 2020.

Homecare providers – prevalence of COVID-19

Number of domiciliary care agencies (DCAs) by COVID-19 submission status

Source: CQC Domiciliary Care Agency Survey. Homecare providers with at least one case including suspected and confirmed cases. Numbers in brackets show number of services that are primarily homecare providers in the region. Included in these figures are homecare services currently lying dormant, so completion rates are slightly higher for fully active services than this might suggest. Percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding.

Homecare providers - availability of all PPE

Source: CQC Domiciliary Care Agency Survey – latest response in period 29 June – 5 July inclusive.

Homecare providers - staff absence

England average: 7%

Source: CQC Domiciliary Care Agency survey – latest response in period 29 June – 5 July inclusive. Includes staff who are self-isolating or have care commitments.

Deaths notified by care homes

The latest data, from 3 June - 3 July, continues to show that deaths in care homes due to COVID-19 are decreasing.

Source: CQC death notifications submitted 3 June to 3 July 2020

Source: CQC death of service user notifications from 10 April to 6 July 2020.

*For this map, notifications are of deaths no matter where the resident died, so it includes deaths in hospitals and hospices.

Deaths of people detained under the Mental Health Act

All providers registered with CQC must notify us about deaths of people who are detained, or liable to be detained , under the MHA. From 1 March to 3 July 2020, we have been notified of 76 deaths that mental health providers indicated were suspected or confirmed to be related to COVID-19. A further three COVID-19 related deaths of detained patients were reported by other (non-mental health) providers.

Of the 176 notifications from mental health providers in the 2020 period (covering all causes of death), 132 were from NHS organisations, of which 50 deaths were indicated as being COVID-19-related, and 44 were from independent providers, of which 26 deaths were COVID-19-related.

For the first time we have identified the total number of detained patients whose deaths have been notified to us from 1 March to 3 July 2020 who had a learning disability and/or were autistic: in this period current records show less than 10 such deaths, of which the majority were identified as related to confirmed or suspected Covid-19 . Of these people, most also had a mental health diagnosis. Please note that these patients were identified both from a specific box being ticked on the notification form and a review of diagnoses in the free text of the form. We are also now able to publish data on ethnicity and place of death, where known, and these are shown at the end of this section.

The table below compares the number of deaths notified to CQC in the above period with equivalent periods in preceding years. When interpreting trends, please note that such low numbers are subject to fluctuation.

ONS data on all weekly deaths in England (COVID and non-COVID) compared with the average for 2015-2019

Source: Covid/Non-Covid 2020 death data and 2015-2019 death data. Week 26: week ending 26 June 2020.