Hospital Beds and Social Services
(asked on 6th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospital beds are occupied by medically-fit patients who cannot be discharged due to a lack of social care.
This question was answered on 11th January 2023
As of the week ending 1 January 2023, there were approximately 12,938 individuals in hospital in England who did not meet the criteria to reside and have not been discharged. Data for patients who cannot be discharged due to lack of social care is not collected by NHS England for all patients with no criteria to reside.