Hospitals: Discharges

(asked on 22nd May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who have had a Care and Treatment Review which recommended discharge from an in-patient setting have now been discharged in line with that recommendation in each year since 2015.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 4th June 2018

The following table shows the number of patients recorded in Assuring Transformation (AT) as discharged to the community from an inpatient setting following a Care and Treatment Review (CTR) which recommended discharge, for the last two financial years, 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2018. Information about CTRs has only been collected in the AT dataset since January 2016.

Figures reported are for the number of people discharged at any point during the year; some patients may have been admitted and discharged more than once within the year. A total of 15 patients appear in both 2016/17 and 2017/18 figures having been discharged to the community during 2016/17, readmitted, and subsequently discharged again during 2017/18 following a further CTR with a recommendation for discharge.

All data are taken from the AT data set as at 31 March 2018.

Patients discharged from an inpatient setting following a CTR which recommended discharge, as at 31 March 2018

Patients discharged from an inpatient setting following a CTR review outcome of ‘ready for discharge’.

Discharged during 2016/17

475

Discharged during 2017/18

535

Total people discharged

995

Source: AT data set.

Note:

Numbers have been rounded to the nearest five to minimise disclosure risks associated with small numbers. The number of patients discharged in 2017/18 is likely to be understated due to late reporting of discharges that took place in the last months of the financial year.

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