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Lots of discussion in this thread on what might be happening but it goes conspiracy theory very quickly
https://twitter.com/SaveTheNHS4U/status/1242943475789766663There is a suggestion that the consent relates to testing post death rather than being included in the stats, so might be more dying than included as not all dead are being tested or it is being attributed to other conditions such as pneumonia
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PHE small number policy around HIV/STI
I think it would be similar.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/423828/20150424_PHE_HIV_STI_Data_Sharing_Policy_v4.1.pdfif the denominator is less than 10,000 you have to supress the value being communicated. So instead of 3, you'd say <10 or something.
So are they going to release the actual figures, but at a national level with any identifiers stripped away, or are we only going to get the edited figures?