You asked
Could you please provide the number of registered deaths recorded as cause of death Pneumonia for the following periods:
March - August 2018
March - August 2019
March - August 2020
We said
Thank you for your request.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide a monthly breakdown of pneumonia figures for 2018, 2019, and 2020. In order to fulfil this request, we would need use a high level of statistical skill and judgement in order to create bespoke analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.
We may be able to create a bespoke dataset with monthly 2018 and 2019 data. Such services would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs. If you would like to discuss the provision of this dataset, please contact: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.
Please see the following information, which may be of interest to you:
Annual figures for deaths where pneumonia is the underlying cause are available via our interactive webservice, accessible via the following link: NOMIS. Pneumonia can be identified by selecting ICD-10 (cause of death) codes J12-J18.
Provisional 2020 monthly death occurrences in England and Wales due to influenza and pneumonia combined are available via the following link: Deaths due to COVID-19 compared with deaths from influenza and pneumonia. In this publication, we have not separated these figures broken down by month, as the count for influenza deaths by month is very small and would be disclosive, causing us to combine these figures in this publication. However, Table 4 of this publication shows a monthly breakdown of both influenza and pneumonia figures for 2020 compared to the 5-year average, and compared to COVID-19 deaths.
Influenza and pneumonia deaths up to September 2020 compared to the 5-year average are also available on Table 11 of the following publication: Monthly Mortality Analysis.
Please also see the following links to ad hoc tables on our website that you might be interested in:
Number of deaths from pneumonia occurring between June and November 2017 in England and Wales