Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of assessments for continuing health care funding took place outside of a hospital setting in (a) March 2017 and (b) October 2017.

Information on the location of NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments was introduced to the mandatory quarterly data set on 1 April 2017. Data is collected and published quarterly with no shorter time period information.

In Quarter 1 of 2017/18 (April – June 2017) the total number of Decision Support Tools completed for the Standard NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment route was 15,005. Of these, 4,000 (27%) were completed in an acute hospital setting.

In Quarter 2 of 2017/18 (July – September 2017) the total number of Decision Support Tools completed for the Standard NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment route was 15,889. Of these, 3,765 (24%) were completed in an acute hospital setting.