Covid-19 deaths and domiciliary care (FOI)

Request

Please confirm, of the 69 people whose deaths were linked to covid-19 from the beginning of the pandemic to date, how many were receiving domiciliary care prior to their death?

Response

In order to answer this question we have compared the names of the 69 people whose deaths were linked to Covid-19, against our records of people who were in receipt of Long-Term Care benefit for care at home at the date of death.

There were two people recorded as receiving domiciliary care prior to their death.

This data does not include people who may have been receiving domiciliary care but were not in receipt of Long-Term Care benefit.