COVID-19 Patients on Mechanical Ventilation at University Hospitals Leicester

Daily counts of COVID-19 patients occupying mechanical ventilation beds at University Hospitals Leicester. The data includes Leicester and Leicestershire residents and may also include patients from outside the area. The dataset is provided by Leicester City Council and was last updated on June 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling hospital ICU demand based on daily patient counts.
• Tracking the severity of COVID-19 waves based on mechanical ventilation usage.
• Analyzing regional healthcare burden based on patient residency data.

Strengths

• Focuses on a critical resource metric (mechanical ventilation beds) for pandemic response.
• Data is sourced directly from a major UK hospital trust (University Hospitals Leicester).
• Last updated on June 17, 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count and temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Leicester City Council.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 11:34:40.176796.

Geography

University Hospitals Leicester, covering Leicester, Leicestershire, and potentially beyond.