Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, under the Transforming Care programme how many patients have died prior to discharge in each 12-month period between March 2015 and March 2019.
The following patient deaths were recorded in the Assuring Transformation dataset between March 2015 and March 2019:
Year | Number of patient deaths* |
1 March 2015 - 31 March 2016 | 15 |
1 April 2016 - 31 March 2017 | 15 |
1 April 2017 – 31 March 2018 | 10 |
1 April 2018 – 31 March 2019 | 10 |
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Total number of deaths** | 45 |
Notes:
* These figures are rounded and so the total does not equal the sum of the individual years.
** There are an additional four patients known to NHS England but not recorded in Assuring Transformation data. NHS England does not have a date of death for these cases.