Syndromic surveillance summary: 13 April 2023 week 14
Updated 4 January 2024
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Reporting week 14: 3 April to 9 April 2023
There were further decreases in coronavirus (COVID-19)-like emergency department (ED) attendances during week 14. All other respiratory indicators decreased or remained stable.
Remote health advice syndromic surveillance system
Total NHS 111 calls and online assessments increased over the Easter bank holiday weekend in line with expected heightened activity during a public holiday. Activity and trends should therefore be interpreted with some caution during week 14.
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GP in hours syndromic surveillance system
During week 14, GP in-hours influenza-like illness and COVID-19-like consultation rates continued to decrease. Please note that week 14 contains a bank holiday when GP in-hours services are not routinely available and therefore trends should be interpreted with some caution.
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GP out-of-hours syndromic surveillance system
Daily GP out-of-hours contact data from 4 August 2022 onwards has not been received due to a widely publicised disruption faced by one of the GP out-of-hours clinical software system providers. We have since been informed that this disruption was as a result of a cybersecurity incident caused by ransomware. We are working closely with our data provider to restore the daily syndromic feed.
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Emergency department syndromic surveillance system
During week 14, COVID-19-like ED attendances continued to decrease nationally across all age groups. Attendances for acute respiratory infections continued to decrease nationally. Influenza-like illness has now stabilised at seasonally expected levels. Scarlet fever attendances continued to decrease nationally, particularly in those aged 1 to 4 and 5 to 14 years.
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Ambulance syndromic surveillance system
During week 14, ambulance calls for difficulty breathing decreased while calls for ‘cardiac or respiratory arrest’ remained stable.
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