FOI Ref: FOI/2023/4857
You asked
Would you please provide me with the number of deaths of doctors and nurses from COVID-19 only from the years 2020 to date 2023.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We are responsible for the production of mortality statistics for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from death certificates at death registration.
Deaths from COVID-19 may include cases where the doctor completing the death certificate diagnosed possible cases of COVID-19, for example, where this was based on relevant symptoms but no test for the virus was conducted. Deaths with a positive test are coded using the ICD10 code U0.71 and those with suspected COVID-19 but no test has been conducted are coded with ICD10 U0.72.
We have been producing the following analysis: Pre-existing conditions of people whose death was recorded with an underlying cause of COVID-19. This dataset can be found in Section 7 of the Monthly mortality analysis bulletin. This contains information on the number deaths due to COVID-19 without underlying conditions.
We have not produced analysis of COVID-19 deaths without underlying conditions by occupation. We can produce this for you as a bespoke request. Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries can be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.