Blood Cancer: Coronavirus
(asked on 17th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were (1) added to, and (2) removed from, the shielding list in (a) April, (b) May, and (c) June; and of those, how many have blood cancer.
This question was answered on 6th August 2020
The information requested on people on the shielded patients list is shown in the following table.
| April | May | June |
Additions | 979,484 | 569,516 | 44,921 |
Deductions | 4,700 | 178,439 | 33,832 |
Source: Shielded Patients List, NHS Digital
People who have been diagnosed with blood cancer are not separately identifiable on the shielded patients list.