UK COVID-19 Inquiry|ICU data
Freedom of information act response. Northwick Park hospital.
Introduction
On 11th Nov 2024 when NHS Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard testified at the UK COVID inquiry a chart was shown of Northwick Park hospital, London to demonstrate how ICU capacity was overwhelmed during the pandemic.
Freedom of information
See the following response from NHS England with regards to Northwick Park hospital, critical care activity. As can be seen during the ‘peak pandemic’ years (2020-2023) were 875 (15%) LESS total admissions than the the prior 3 year non pandemic period.
2017-2020= 5,675
2020-2023= 4,800
Thoughts
Even with this cherry picked hospital data we see in reality more people were admitted the year before ‘the pandemic’ 2019-2020 which exceeded any of the peak ‘pandemic’ years. In fact, from 2021 total ICU admissions were, year on year, the lowest for 7 years compared to pre ’COVID’ levels.
Thanks for your attention.
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🤦🤦🤦 they are desperate aren't they ....thanks for showing the scam and figures . I am sure if we all did FOIs would be interesting 🤔
“Of all the hospitals in all the towns in all the UK, she picks this one”. Apologies for mis quoting a famous line from Casablanca but I have to think the choice of this hospital was deliberate trolling and an opportunity to rub our noses in it. Many thanks for taking the time and effort to get this data and for your recent reporting.