Lothian NHS Board Waverley Gate 2-4 Waterloo Place Edinburgh EH1 3EG

Telephone: 0131 536 9000 www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk

Date: 07/12/2020 Your Ref: Our Ref: 4833

Enquiries to : Richard Mutch Extension: 35687 Direct Line: 0131 465 5687 [email protected] [email protected]

Dear

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – COVID-19

I write in response to your request for information in relation to Covid-19 within NHS Lothian.

Question: 1. How many hospitals in scotland are owned or run by the NHS and how many are working (now this date)

Answer: We cannot answer for the NHS in Scotland. NHS Lothian sites can be found on our website:- https://www.nhslothian.scot/GoingToHospital/Locations/Pages/default.aspx

Question: 2. From first oct 2020 until current date how many hospitals are "over flowing with covid 19 patients.

Answer: Hospitals within NHS Lothian are not over flowing with Covid-19 patients.

Question: 3. From oct 2020 till current date what percent of each hospital has covid 19 patients and their number

Answer: Covid-19 patients have been treated at are three main hospital sites.

Question: 4. How many deaths in scotland from oct 2020 till now how many died of ACTUAL covid deaths and NOT COVID RELATED deaths (as these figures are pie in the sky for many reasons)

Answer: This is available via NRS at: https://statistics.gov.scot/data/deaths-involving-coronavirus-covid-19

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Information is also available from Public Health Scotland interactive database which is pubic facing: https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID- 19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

Question: 5. How many of these people were over 65 and under 18 and How many of these people were 18 to 65 same dates

Answer: This is available via NRS at https://statistics.gov.scot/data/deaths-involving-coronavirus-covid-19

Information is also available from Public Health Scotland interactive database which is pubic facing https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID- 19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

Question: 6. How many that died positively from covid had underlying health problems

Answer: This is available via NRS at https://statistics.gov.scot/data/deaths-involving-coronavirus-covid-19

Question: 7. How many ventilators does scotland have? And what percentage of these ventilators are being used right now this date

Answer: We cannot answer for NHS Scotland. NHS Lothian had 79 ventilators before the pandemic (18 of these were units that had recently been replaced, but were still on site and fit to be returned to clinical use) and received an additional 35 ventilators from NHS National Services Scotland and the Department of Health.

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Question: 8. How many hospitals/ buildings were built annexed aquired etc for covid and how many are used now this date

Answer: None.

Question: 9. Since march 2020 has any hospital EVER been overwhelmed by covid patients

Answer: NHS Lothian has appropriately managed all Covid-19 patients.

Question: 10. In your figures to the government on carona /covid 19 do you roll all carona viruses into one for your totals or is it strictly covid 19 (flu common cold and other carona viruses)

Answer: As provided above, figures are reported by Public Health Scotland and National Records for Scotland.

Question: 11. To your knowledge has scotland isolated the virus yet

Answer: I do not understand what you mean by “isolated” and I can only answer for NHS Lothian, not for Scotland as a whole. Covid-19 is a pandemic, work is being carried out nationally and international.

Question: 12. How many new staff did you specifically recruit for covid (not cleaners etc.) But doctors and nurses in scotland

Answer: We cannot answer for the NHS in Scotland. Within NHS Lothian staff were not recruited specifically in relation to covid-19.

Question: 13. To your knowledge has the government ever asked you to be contrary or to be blatent lie with death figures

Answer: No, figures are reported by Public Health Scotland and National Records for Scotland.

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Question: 14. Of all the Actual covid deaths (not related covid deaths) in scotland what percentage of hospital space did the use oct 2020 to current date.

Answer: This information is not recorded in a centrally extractable format.

Question: 15. How many actual covid patients at this date are in ICU beds

Answer: Lothian today there are 10 Covid patients in the 3 ICUs.

Question: 16. How many ICU beds (all medical problems) are in use

Answer: Normal capacity across all sites Total 55 beds.

Question: 17. 2018 and 2019 how many people died of normal flu in scotland

Answer: Figures are reported by Public Health Scotland and National Records for Scotland.

Question: 18. Their are so many questions but i think you get the general theme, figures for each hospital that can handle covid cases not plain old carona viruses

Answer: There is no specific question here. Figures are reported by Public Health Scotland and National Records for Scotland.

Question: 19. In 2017 2018 2019 how many people died of all causes in scotlands hospitals and to date how many people have died in 2020

Answer: Figures are reported by Public Health Scotland and National Records for Scotland.

I am sorry I cannot help more with your request.

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If you are unhappy with our response to your request, you do have the right to request us to review it. Your request should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this letter, and we will reply within 20 working days of receipt. If our decision is unchanged following a review and you remain dissatisfied with this, you then have the right to make a formal complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner within 6 months of receipt of our review response. You can do this by using the Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office online appeals service at www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal. If you remain dissatisfied with the Commissioner’s response you then have the option to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of law.

If you require a review of our decision to be carried out, please write to the FOI Reviewer at the email address at the head of this letter. The review will be undertaken by a Reviewer who was not involved in the original decision-making process.

FOI responses (subject to redaction of personal information) may appear on NHS Lothian’s Freedom of Information website at: http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/YourRights/FOI/Pages/default.aspx

Yours sincerely

PROFESSOR ALEX MCMAHON Executive Director, Nursing, Midwifery and AHPs Executive Lead for REAS and Prison Healthcare Cc: Chief Executive