Heart failure mortality statistics (FOI)

Request

Please provide the number of deaths for each year from 2015 to date where the cause of death is due to cardiac failure. Also provide the data for all age ranges.

Response

Cardiac failure:

Cardiac failure is synonymous with heart failure.

Heart failure in Jersey:

The mortality statistics for Jersey, are derived from information collected from the death certificate at death registration. All of the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules. Cause of death coding is carried out by a specialist team at ONS (Office for National Statistics, UK) on an annual basis.

Where heart failure is the underlying cause of death an ICD-10 Code of I50 and I50.9 is used to record this.

2023 ICD-10-CM Codes I50*: Heart failure (icd10data.com)

As the numbers of heart failures in Jersey from the above-mentioned causes are small, it is not possible to provide a breakdown by age as it may lead to the identification of individuals and breach the confidentiality of their personal information. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals.

Heart failure where ICD-10 code I50 and I50.9 is the underlying cause of death:

Numbers rounded to the nearest 5

Source: Public Health Intelligence Mortality Database, from data recorded by Office of the Superintendent Registrar, and Viscount's Department

Article applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

3)      In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.