Community deaths and abbotswood

Summary

The request sought monthly data on community deaths, paramedic callouts, and Abbotswood nursing home statistics from 2017-2021. The Cabinet Office provided links to existing mortality reports but withheld specific monthly breakdowns due to the cost of compilation and stated it does not hold paramedic or nursing home data.

Key Facts

• Mortality reports covering 2017-2019 are available online via the Cabinet Office website.
• The Cabinet Office does not hold information regarding paramedic callouts or Abbotswood nursing home resident data.
• Monthly figures for community deaths were not provided because compiling them would require substantial collation contrary to section 8(3) of the Act.
• Requesters were directed to contact Manx Care for paramedic and nursing home information.
• The next set of mortality reports was scheduled for publication in March 2022.

Data Disclosed

• 2017-2021
• 2019
• March 2022
• 2099101
• 40
• 22
• 2148001

Exemptions Cited

• Section 20: Information already reasonably accessible
• Section 8(3): Substantial compilation or collation of information

Original Request

1. Please could you provide the monthly figures for all reason community deaths from 2017-2021. If info is avail online, please do provide a link as I cannot find it. 2. Please could you provide the monthly figures for all paramedic call outs, and reasons if possible, from 2017-2021 3. Please provide the monthly figures from the Abbotswood nursing home residents from 2017-2021: a. All reason deaths b. Covid-19 positive cases (IOM article states over 40?) c. Covid-19 resident deaths (IOM article states 22 last year) http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=62370&headline=Abbotswood%20will%20reopen%20under%20new%20name§ionIs=NEWS&searchyear=2021 Thank you

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Full Response Text

Government Office Douglas Isle of Man IM1 3PN Telephone: (+44) 01624 686244 Website: www.gov.im/co

Our ref: 2148001 13 January 2022

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 15 December 2021 and which states:

"1. Please could you provide the monthly figures for all reason community deaths from 2017-2021. If info is avail online, please do provide a link as I cannot find it. 2. Please could you provide the monthly figures for all paramedic call outs, and reasons if possible, from 2017-2021 3. Please provide the monthly figures from the Abbotswood nursing home residents from 2017-2021: a. All reason deaths b. Covid-19 positive cases (IOM article states over 40?) c. Covid-19 resident deaths (IOM article states 22 last year) http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=62370&headline=Abbotswood %20will%20reopen%20under%20new%20name&sectionIs=NEWS&searc hyear=2021 Thank you" Our response to your request is as follows: "1. Please could you provide the monthly figures for all reason community deaths from 2017-2021. If info is avail online, please do provide a link as I cannot find it. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, under section 20 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you, whether free of charge or on payment of a fee. Some of the information that you have requested is available online. Community deaths 2017-2021, the mortality reports published to date are available online at: https://www.gov.im/about-the-government/departments/cabinet-office/public- health/health-intelligence/mortality-reporting/. This covers the period to 2019. The next set of mortality reports are due for publication in March 2022. Some additional (Covid related) death data is already available from a previous Freedom of Information response, 2099101, Updated Death Certificate Data which is

available online at: https://services.gov.im/freedom-of-information/search which includes some information about deaths from or with Covid, and which was produced specifically for Covid-19 weekly surveillance reporting.

Complying with the request for information for monthly figures would require the Cabinet Office to do one or more of the matters mentioned in section 8(3) (things a public authority is not required to do by the Act). The mortality reports are only analysed and produced in the year banding shown, they are not analysed or reported by month for the purpose of mortality reporting. To do so would require us to create or derive or undertake substantial compilation or collation of information which is contrary to section 8(3) of the Freedom of Information Act. The Covid-19 weekly surveillance report does not include figures for 'all reason' community deaths. However, should you wish to analyse the data yourself you may wish to use the monthly mortality data and mortality data since 2019 which can be obtained directly from the Civil Registry: Civil Registry The Registries Building Deemsters Walk Bucks Road Douglas Isle of Man IM1 3AR E-mail: civil@registry.gov.im Telephone: 01624 687039 2. Please could you provide the monthly figures for all paramedic call outs, and reasons if possible, from 2017-2021 While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Cabinet Office does not hold the information that you have requested. However, you may wish to contact Manx Care who may be able to help you: Manx Care, Head Office, Noble’s Hospital Estate, Strang, Braddan, Isle of Man, IM4 4RJ or submit a freedom of information request to Manx Care directly: https://iomportal.icasework.com/resource?id=741209&db=iom 3. Please provide the monthly figures from the Abbotswood nursing home residents from 2017-2021: a. All reason deaths b. Covid-19 positive cases (IOM article states over 40?) c. Covid-19 resident deaths (IOM article states 22 last year) http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=62370&headline=Abbotswood %20will%20reopen%20under%20new%20name&sectionIs=NEWS&searc hyear=2021 The Cabinet Office does not hold the information that you have requested. You may wish to contact Manx Care who may be able to assist you.

Please quote the reference number 2148001 in any future communications.

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Yours sincerely