covid19

NEWS - New report on The Impact of Covid-19 on Children’s Care Journeys in Scotland: An Analysis of the Administrative Data on 'Looked After' Children

This report analyses administrative data on children in care during the Covid-19 pandemic.

NEWS - When did fines issued by the police for breaking Covid rules peak?

Most fines for Covid rule breaches were issued when England was in its third national lockdown and Wales was in its second, research shows.

Almost two thirds of the 120,000-plus fixed penalty notices (FPNs) given out by police across the two nations were issued between January and May...

DATA INSIGHTS - Were people who died at home less likely to attend hospital at the end of life during the Covid pandemic?

Summary

This week our Research Fellow, Jan Savinc, shares his initial findings from his work analysing linked death records held by National Records Scotland and health service data held by Public Health Scotland. This data linkage enabled analysis of hospitalisations for people in their final year of life.

This Data Insights provides a clearer understanding of the numbers of deaths at home, in care homes, and in hospital during the pre-pandemic period and during the first year of the pandemic (23 March 2020 to 22 March 2021).