Hospitals: Admissions

(asked on 17th December 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the rate of hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge was for (a) Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, (b) Hampshire and (c) England in each of the last ten years.


Answered by
Stephen Kinnock Portrait
Stephen Kinnock
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 8th January 2025

The following tables show published experimental statistics by NHS England on the percentage of emergency admissions to any hospital in England within 30 days of the most recent discharge from hospital at a trust and national level:

Year

Level description

Indicator value

Banding (comparison to national average – see below for definitions)

2014/15

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11.5

B1

2015/16

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11.1

B1

2016/17

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12.4

B1

2017/18

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13.6

W

2018/19

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14.4

W

2019/20

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14.7

A5

2020/21

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16.3

A1

2021/22

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16.1

A1

2022/23

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15.8

A1

2023/24

HAMPSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

16.6

A1

Year

Level description

Indicator value

2014/15

England

12.7

2015/16

England

13.0

2016/17

England

13.2

2017/18

England

13.6

2018/19

England

14.2

2019/20

England

14.3

2020/21

England

15.4

2021/22

England

14.3

2022/23

England

14.2

2023/24

England

14.8

Source: NHS England

Notes:

  1. B1 = Significantly lower than the national average at the 99.8% level; B5 = Significantly lower than the national average at the 95% level but not at the 99.8% level; W = National average lies within expected variation (95% confidence interval); A5 = Significantly higher than the national average at the 95% level but not at the 99.8% level; A1 = Significantly higher than the national average at the 99.8% level.
  2. Figures are indirectly standardised to adjust for variation in age, sex, method of admission and diagnosis/procedure between hospitals and over time.

Further statistics around discharge are available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/compendium-emergency-readmissions/current/emergency-readmissions-to-hospital-within-30-days-of-discharge

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