Table 1: Characteristics of residents from residential and nursing homes admitted to National Health Service hospital trusts in England, by primary diagnosis (1 March to 31 May 2019, and 1 March to 31 May 2020).
| Care home type | Residential | Nursing | ||||||
| Year | 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | ||||
| Primary diagnosis | All | COVID-19 | Other | All | COVID-19 | Other | ||
| N | 24995 | 2960 | 15348 | 17903 | 3295 | 10597 | ||
| Female (%) | 15410 (61.7) | 1609 (54.4) | 9380 (61.1) | 9956 (55.6) | 1604 (48.7) | 5712 (53.9) | ||
| Age in years* | 81 (15) | 83 (11) | 81 (15) | 79 (14) | 79 (12) | 79 (14) | ||
| Charlson Comorbidity Index* | 2.03 (1.93) | 2.11 (1.89) | 2.09 (1.95) | 2.30 (2.03) | 2.29 (2.01) | 2.35 (2.06) | ||
| Dementia (%) | 12103 (48.4) | 1618 (54.7) | 7774 (50.7) | 8860 (49.5) | 1768 (53.7) | 5389 (50.9) | ||
| IMD quintile†(%) | ||||||||
| 1 (least deprived) | 4783 (19.1) | 615 (20.8) | 2990 (19.5) | 4165 (23.3) | 891 (27.0) | 2456 (23.2) | ||
| 2 | 5423 (21.7) | 664 (22.4) | 3405 (22.2) | 3589 (20.0) | 762 (23.1) | 2105 (19.9) | ||
| 3 | 5533 (22.1) | 659 (22.3) | 3343 (21.8) | 3721 (20.8) | 605 (18.4) | 2227 (21.0) | ||
| 4 | 5016 (20.1) | 609 (20.6) | 3133 (20.4) | 3477 (19.4) | 597 (18.1) | 1986 (18.7) | ||
| 5 (most deprived) | 4162 (16.7) | 403 (13.6) | 2443 (15.9) | 2888 (16.1) | 429 (13.0) | 1799 (17.0) | ||
| Missing | 78 (0.3) | 10 (0.3) | 34 (0.2) | 63 (0.4) | 11 (0.3) | 24 (0.2) | ||
| Region (%) | ||||||||
| East Midlands | 1260 (5.0) | 161 (5.4) | 763 (5.0) | 1324 (7.4) | 255 (7.7) | 886 (8.4) | ||
| East of England | 2659 (10.6) | 313 (10.6) | 1617 (10.5) | 1698 (9.5) | 324 (9.8) | 922 (8.7) | ||
| London | 2951 (11.8) | 419 (14.2) | 1811 (11.8) | 2016 (11.3) | 439 (13.3) | 1116 (10.5) | ||
| North East | 3488 (14.0) | 418 (14.1) | 2032 (13.2) | 2803 (15.7) | 553 (16.8) | 1604 (15.1) | ||
| North West | 2541 (10.2) | 127 (4.3) | 1717 (11.2) | 1547 (8.6) | 132 (4.0) | 954 (9.0) | ||
| South East | 2696 (10.8) | 295 (10.0) | 1662 (10.8) | 1688 (9.4) | 245 (7.4) | 1066 (10.1) | ||
| South West | 3747 (15.0) | 530 (17.9) | 2385 (15.5) | 1746 (9.8) | 362 (11.0) | 1130 (10.7) | ||
| West Midlands | 1718 (6.9) | 378 (12.8) | 868 (5.7) | 2163 (12.1) | 536 (16.3) | 1060 (10.0) | ||
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 3857 (15.4) | 309 (10.4) | 2459 (16.0) | 2855 (15.9) | 438 (13.3) | 1835 (17.3) | ||
| Missing | 78 (0.3) | 10 (0.3) | 34 (0.2) | 63 (0.4) | 11 (0.3) | 24 (0.2) | ||
| Bed capacity* | 37 (20) | 44 (22) | 38 (21) | 61 (27) | 65 (28) | 61 (27) | ||
Admissions include ordinary elective admissions, elective day cases and emergency admissions. *Mean (standard deviation), †Index of Multiple Deprivation quintiles.