Hospital admissions, deaths and COVID-19 vaccination status (FOI)

Request

A

Please can you advise of the number of patients who attended the General Hospital for suspected / actual heart attacks / actual or suspected blood clots or thrombosis - on a monthly basis from January 2019 onwards to date.

B

Please confirm how many of these numbers were fully or partially vaccinated for Covid-19, or unvaccinated

C

Please confirm the amount of deaths in Jersey on a month by month basis since January 2019 to date

D

Of these, please confirm how many of these were fully or partially vaccinated for Covid-19

E

Of those admitted to the General hospital for emergency treatment, since the vaccination programme started, how many of those were fully / partially vaccinated for COVID-19 or unvaccinated

Response

A

Clinical Coding of inpatient admissions records actual diagnosis and not suspected conditions. The attached table shows the number of admissions with a diagnosis of:

In the primary position (eg the primary reason for admission)

• Embolism following abortion and ectopic and molar pregnancy

• Superficial thrombophlebitis in pregnancy

• Deep phlebothrombosis in pregnancy

• Cerebral venous thrombosis in pregnancy

• Superficial thrombophlebitis in the puerperium

• Deep phlebothrombosis in the puerperium

• Cerebral venous thrombosis in the puerperium

In any position (may not have been the primary reason for admission but was recorded in the clinical notes)

• Acute myocardial infarction

• Subsequent myocardial infarction

• Certain current complications following acute myocardial infarction

• Other acute ischaemic heart diseases

• Cerebral infarction

• Phlebitis and thrombophlebitis

Note that clinical coding is performed at or soon after the point of discharge so patients still in hospital or recently discharged from hospital may not yet have been coded.

Monthly admission statistics 1 January 2019

B

Following an extensive review of systems, it has been concluded that the information on vaccination status, as requested, is not held in recorded form. To answer the request, the data would need to be extracted from various sources and manipulated, aside from taking more than the prescribed 12.5 hours to do that work, the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

C

Please see attached table:

Monthly death statistics 1 January 2019

D and E

Following an extensive review of systems, it has been concluded that the information on vaccination status, as requested, is not held in recorded form. To answer the request, the data would need to be extracted from various sources and manipulated, aside from taking more than the prescribed 12.5 hours to do that work, the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

Article applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.[2]

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.