Hospitals: Discharges

(asked on 8th May 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 13th May 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

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.

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