Health: Coronavirus
(asked on 4th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the covid-19 outbreak on health inequalities in (a) Streatham, (b) London and (c) England.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Office of Health Improvement and Disparities’ COVID-19 Health Inequalities Monitoring for England (CHIME) tool collates data relating the impacts of COVID-19 on health inequalities, such as confirmed COVID-19 cases, mortality rates, hospital admissions and vaccinations. The tool also provides estimates of inequality in life expectancy in England. However, data is not available at parliamentary constituency level.
Mortality rates from COVID-19 in the most deprived areas have been higher than in the least deprived areas during the pandemic. The CHIME tool shows that inequality in life expectancy for England and London increased for both males and females in 2020. Life expectancy data for 2021 is not yet available. In London and England, COVID-19 as a contributory cause of death had the largest impact on life expectancy in 2020.