Public health funerals for Covid patients

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Hi there

This is a Freedom of Information request regarding public health funerals the trust has undertaken during the Covid-19 pandemic. Could you please tell me:

1. How many public health funerals the trust has undertaken for patients who have died of Covid (within 28 days of the first positive test) with no known relatives or next of kin.

I'm looking for information relating to the period between March 2 2020 and March 2 2021. Can the information please be broken down by ethnicity, age and gender for each patient? If doing this exceeds the cost limit and the scope needs narrowing, could ethnicity be prioritised, followed by age, please?

2. How many Covid deaths (within 28 days of the first positive test) have been recorded by the trust between March 2 2020 and March 2 2021.

3. How much a public health funeral typically costs the trust, and if possible, how much has been spent on public health funerals by the trust between March 2 2020 and March 2 2021.

4. The relationship between the trust and the local authority/authorities when it comes to public health funerals and the processes involved in deciding who is responsible for arranging them.

5. What is provided by the trust at a public health funeral.

Yours faithfully,
Sam Gelder

FOI (THE ROYAL WOLVERHAMPTON NHS TRUST), The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Dear Sam,

Thank you for your request for information.

We have allocated reference number 8272 to your Request which we confirm we are now processing.

We expect to respond to you within 20 working days.

Kind regards

Freedom of Information Co-ordinators | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

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FOI (THE ROYAL WOLVERHAMPTON NHS TRUST), The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

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Dear Sam,

                              

Please see the attached final response in relation to FOI 8272 - Public
health funerals for Covid patients.

 

Kind regards

 

Freedom of Information Co-ordinators | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

 

 

 

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Hi

Thanks so much for getting back to me on this FOI. I've been in touch with the press office about the possibility of speaking to someone involved in tracing relatives through the genealogy companies, and they told me to ask if you could put me in touch with them.

I know that's not really your job but if you could just pass on a contact for someone that'd be great.

Thank you
Sam