Government Replies to Question on Estimates of mortality of care home residents linked to the COVID-19 pandemic which found that “data on deaths in care homes directly attributed to COVID- 19 underestimate the impact of the pandemic on care home residents. In the reply, Professor Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, says he will analyse how the number of non-COVID-19 deaths occurring in different places of death (including care homes), for different age groups and for different causes of death differ from previous years’ data and will suggest how these findings correspond with possible reasons for the increase. – David Alton

Government Replies to Question on Estimates of mortality of care home residents linked to the COVID-19 pandemic which found that “data on deaths in care homes directly attributed to COVID- 19 underestimate the impact of the pandemic on care home residents. In the reply, Professor Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, says he will analyse how the number of non-COVID-19 deaths occurring in different places of death (including care homes), for different age groups and for different causes of death differ from previous years’ data and will suggest how these findings correspond with possible reasons for the increase.

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