Statistical data set

COVID-19: number of outbreaks in care homes - management information

Weekly number and percentage of care homes reporting a suspected or confirmed outbreak of COVID-19 to PHE by local authorities, regions and PHE centres.

This dataset is derived from reports to Public Health England (PHE) of infectious disease outbreaks in care homes. Care homes in this dataset refers to all supported living facilities such as residential homes, nursing homes, rehabilitation units and assisted living units.

The tables in this publication provide the latest management information on suspected or confirmed outbreaks of COVID-19 for upper tier local authorities, lower tier local authorities, government office regions and PHE centres.

Any individual care home will only be included in the dataset once. If a care home has reported more than one outbreak, only the first is included in this dataset.

As the details of an outbreak are investigated data will be subject to revision and the numbers in this dataset may change in future publications.

This dataset contains no indication of whether the reported outbreaks are still active.

Each weekly total refers to reports in the period Monday to the following Sunday.

As the COVID-19 situation in England continues to evolve, the previous report providing management information on care home outbreaks is no longer appropriate. Therefore, this publication ceased on 23 July 2020.

PHE continues to share all relevant case and outbreak data with local authorities and other stakeholders regularly and is developing additional integrated tools to support their ongoing need for intelligence. The COVID-19 surveillance report is published weekly.

If you have any comments or queries email asc@phe.gov.uk .

Care home data weekly updates: 23 July 2020

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Care home data weekly summary report: 23 July 2020

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