This analysis describes the impact of COVID-19 on care home residents and home care users. The main focus is on all cause and COVID-19 deaths as well as COVID-19 outbreaks in care homes.
The analysis is shown in the Health Foundation briefing Adult social care and COVID-19: Assessing the impact on social care users and staff in England so far.
The analysis is shown in the Health Foundation briefing Adult social care and COVID-19 after the first wave: assessing the policy response in England.
This project only uses public data.
Deaths involving COVID-19 in the care sector Outbreaks in care homes
Need to create a 'data' and 'graphs' folder in sprint_2 for the code to work
Care home resident deaths registered in England and Wales, provisional
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional
Notifications of deaths of residents from adult care homes by date of notification and cause
Outbreaks in care homes
National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports
National COVID-19 surveillance reports
The code can be used to download and analyse the data.
These scripts were written in R version (3.6.3) and RStudio Version 1.3.959 The following R packages (available on CRAN) are needed:
- tidyverse(1.3.0)
- janitor (2.0.1)
- lubridate (1.7.8)
- testthat (2.3.2)
- curl (4.3)
- taskscheduleR (1.4) (Windows only)
- THFstyle internal package
The 'src' folder contains
- 0_download_data.R - Download data - links need to be updated for latest data
- 1_clean_data.R - Clean and save data
- 1_b_clean_care_homes_data - Clean care homes data
- 2_timeseries_plots.Rmd - Plot long time series
- 3_regional_deaths_in_care_homes.R - plot deaths in care homes by region
- 4_national_deaths_care_home_residents.R - Plot deaths in care homes during the pandemic
- 5_regional_care_home_outbreaks - plot time line of outbreaks in care homes
- Emma Vestesson - Health Foundation profile @gummifot - emmavestesson
- Fiona Grimm - on Twitter or GitHub
This project is licensed under the MIT License.