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"John Dee" has access to NHS data for a region of England and recently posted this: [1]. Take with a pinch of salt given the anonymity but it shows a much large
by ssl232 5y ago
"John Dee" has access to NHS data for a region of England and recently posted this: [1]. Take with a pinch of salt given the anonymity but it shows a much larger spike in respiratory illness admissions to hospital in December 2019 compared to March 2020 when cases shot up in the UK.
[1] https://jdee.substack.com/p/trend-in-emergency-admissions-respiratory https://jdee.substack.com/p/trend-in-emergency-admissions-re...
- orra 5y agoWe should definitely treat this with skepticism, given the source anonymity. Such statistical data is freely available under Freedom of Information law in the UK. (Privacy laws obviously protect individuals, but not public bodies.)
- ssl232 5y agoThe data in question is anonymised patient data. I believe this is not available publicly, only statistics. Apparently this person is a retired NHS manager of some sort, probably got the data via an old colleague. If the data were public this argument could be definitively proved or disproved, but until then we need the pinch of salt that I noted in my comment.
- orra 5y agoYou didn’t listen to me fully. Let me repeat myself. Freedom of Information law provides for the publication of statistical information. It provides for the publication of patient-anonymised data. A&E waiting times are periodically published, but anybody living anywhere can request other information held by a public body. There is zero need for the public body to be anonymous.