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 had discharge dates set which have now passed without the patient being discharged.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 13th May 2019

NHS Digital routinely publishes the number of delayed discharges in relation to the Transforming Care programme in their monthly Assuring Transformation (AT) publication which can be found at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/learning-disability-services-statistics

The most recent AT data indicates that in March 2019, there were 105 delayed discharges.

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