FoI Number
2023-159
Subject
Hospital Mortality
Date Received
15/06/2023
Request and Response

Please note – NHS Shetland has only one hospital, the Gilbert Bain Hospital.

Covid-19 is defined as ICD 10 codes U07.1 & U07.2.

  1. Can you tell me the total amount of deaths where a patient died ONLY of COVID-19 within all hospitals in NHS Shetland from 2020-2023 separated by hospital and year?

Nil

  1. Can you tell me the total amount of NON COVID deaths that have occurred within all of the above hospitals from 2020-2023 separated by hospital and year?

Defining Non Covid deaths as deaths which did not list Covid-19 as an Underlying Cause of Death or as a Cause of Death Code.

Year

Non Covid Deaths

2020

50

2021

58

2022

52

2023

24

Overall

184

  1. Can you tell me the total amount of COVID-19 deaths as underlying cause within all of the above hospitals from 2020-2023 separated by hospital and year?

Year

Covid-19 as Underlying Cause of Death

2020

1

2021

3

2022

4

2023

3

Overall

11

  1. Can you tell me the total amount of deaths from all causes that occurred within all these hospitals from 2010-2022 separated by hospital and year?

Year

Deaths

2010

84

2011

77

2012

76

2013

69

2014

70

2015

63

2016

80

2017

45

2018

61

2019

56

2020

51

2021

61

2022

57

Overall

850