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Freedom of information requests

FOI 3915 2023/24

No. of transmitted diseases and vaccinations administered

Published 31 May 2024

No. of transmitted diseases and vaccinations administered

Questions

Request the following data (in Excel format) for the last ten calendar years (2013-2023) - if 10 years of data are unavailable, please send for as many years as possible:

  1. The total number of reported cases for each of the following diseases within your NHS Trust, broken down by year:
  2. If applicable, the total number of vaccinations administered for each of the diseases, broken down by year.

Response

The Trust does hold all of the information you have requested, however we are withholding some of it for the following reasons:

Section 40 – Personal Information

Section 40 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act (2000) allows public authorities to withhold personal data where it is protected under the Data Protection Act.

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified living individual.

We have therefore withheld the exact number of patients where this is 5 or less (replaced with the <6 symbol), as this could be potentially identifiable and as such is protected from disclosure by Section 40 (2) of the FOI Act.

  1. Diseases/ illnesses

    2019

    2020

    2021

    2022

    2023

    2024

    Gout

    3,756

    4,702

    5,541

    5,524

    5,716

    789

    Leprosy

    <6

    <6

    <6

    <6

    0

    0

    Tuberculosis

    209

    203

    226

    224

    191

    16

    Measles

    <6

    0

    0

    <6

    23

    53

    Polio

    6

    <6

    <6

    <6

    <6

    0

    Rickets

    <6

    6

    <6

    <6

    0

    0

    Scarlet Fever

    30

    19

    9

    48

    36

    11

    Malnutrition

    186

    250

    295

    340

    276

    25

    Whooping Cough

    6

    <6

    0

    6

    <6

    <6

    Smallpox

    0

    0

    0

    0

    0

    0

    Scurvy

    13

    7

    8

    6

    6

    0

    Typhoid

    25

    15

    <6

    24

    32

    <6

    Cholera

    0

    0

    <6

    0

    0

    0

    Syphilis

    10

    14

    23

    40

    29

    <6

    Malaria

    44

    8

    14

    24

    46

    5

    Typhus

    0

    0

    0

    <6

    <6

    0

  2. We do not hold this information because primary care providers are responsible for vaccinations administration.