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, what the (a) number and (b) value of payments made by NHS bodies to local authorities under the Transforming Care programme to support patients discharged in each 12-month period was between March 2015 and March 2019.


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

The information on delayed discharges is not held in the format requested. 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.

The AT data includes the reason for discharge. In March 2019 the reason for a delayed discharge was as follows:

Reason for delayed discharge

Number of inpatients*

Lack of agreed health care funding

10

Lack of agreed social care funding

15

Awaiting non-acute NHS care

5

Awaiting residential home

30

Awaiting nursing home

0

Awaiting care package in own home

10

Awaiting community equipment

0

Patient or family choice

10

Lack of local health provision

10

Lack of social care support

20

Lack of suitable housing provision

40

Other reason for delay

50

Total delayed discharges

105

Note:

* The reasons do not sum to the total number of delays as there may be multiple reasons assigned.

NHS England does not hold information on the number and value of payments made by NHS bodies to local authorities under the Transforming Care programme to support patients discharged in each 12-month period between March 2015 and March 2019.

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