Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2023 to Question 135229 on Hospitals: Discharges, how many and what proportion of delayed discharges were due to (a) hospital process delays, (b) patients awaiting the start of (i) home-based, (ii) residential, (iii) nursing home and (iv) intermediate care and (c) any other reason in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not held centrally. NHS England publishes information about the daily numbers of patients who no longer meet the criteria to reside and this is broken down by the care and support they receive subsequent to being discharged. They also publish a weekly snapshot of the number of additional days total patients have remained in hospital since no longer meeting the criteria to reside. This information is available on the NHS England website.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2023 to Question 146908 on Hospital Beds: Costs, what the unit cost per day is for NHS (a) elective, (b) non-elective, (c) high dependency and (d) standard ward beds.
Answered by Will Quince
Using cost collection data for 2020/21, the most recently available data, the unit cost per day of NHS hospital beds is as follows:
- Elective - £2,349
- Non-elective - £901
- Critical care - £1,881
- Standard bed - £345
The elective and non-elective costs above are the average cost per day in those points of delivery, including treatment costs. Elective care has a higher average per day cost as elective patients often have shorter spells in hospital. Patients who are admitted as non-elective admissions often spend longer in hospital including recovery and days spent waiting for discharge, so whilst the total cost for non-elective treatment is higher than elective treatment, the average per day cost is reduced as it is spread over many more days. Costs for critical care are averages across adults, children, and neonates. The standard bed cost is the average cost of a bed day excluding any treatment costs.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2023 to Question 135225 on Social Services: Agency Workers, what the value is of agency staff costs as a proportion of total staff costs in non-specialist care homes.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
According to Skills for Care, 8% of all filled posts in the care sector were bank, pool, or agency in 2021/22. 7% of all filled posts in residential care and 7% in domiciliary care were bank, pool, or agency in 2021/22. In the absence of more complete data on the number or cost of agency staff in previous years, we are unable to make a robust estimate on the annual spend on agency care workers in last 13 years.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on launching the taskforce on Older People’s Housing.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department of Health and Social Care continues to work in partnership with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in preparation for this. The taskforce will bring together experts from across the sector to make recommendations on how we can provide greater choice, quality, and security of housing for older people. Arrangements for the taskforce are still ongoing and further details will be released in due course.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2023 to Question 135230 on Care Quality Commission: Finance, how much funding from the public purse was allocated to the Care Quality Commission in each year since 2010.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is funded primarily by fees collected from the health and adult social care providers it registers and regulates.
The following table shows the funding the Department allocated to CQC in each year since 2013. The Department is required to keep detailed financial records for six years and therefore information prior to 2013 is not held centrally.
Financial year | CQC funding (in millions) |
2013/2014 | £87.30 |
2014/2015 | £126.00 |
2015/2016 | £135.00 |
2016/2017 | £81.70 |
2017/2018 | £43.10 |
2018/2019 | £39.50 |
2019/2020 | £36.40 |
2020/2021 | £31.70 |
2021/2022 | £32.20 |
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were waiting to be discharged from hospital for four weeks or more despite being identified as medically fit for discharge on 13 March 2023.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients had been waiting to be discharged from hospital for two weeks or more despite being identified as medically fit for discharge on 13 March 2023.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were waiting to be discharged from hospital for three weeks or more despite being identified as medically fit for discharge on 13 March 2023.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were waiting to be discharged from hospital for one week or more despite being identified as medically fit for discharge on 13 March 2023.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time between a patient being identified as medically fit for discharge and being discharged was in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not held centrally.