Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were hospitalised with covid-19 in Dorset hospitals in (a) November and (b) December 2020; and how many of each cohort acquired their infection before being admitted to hospital.
The following table shows the total number of patients with COVID-19 admitted to Dorset hospitals in the period 1-30 November 2020 and 1-27 December 2020:
| 1-30 November 2020 | 1-27 December2020 |
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust | 280 | 219 |
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust | 55 | 52 |
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | 22 | 26 |
NHS England do not collect data to indicate when patients acquired their infection.