Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications for Standard NHS Continuing Healthcare were completed in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19.
The following table provides the total number of standard referrals received for standard NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC), for the years 2016/17 to 2018/19. We do not hold this data for 2015/16.
Period | Number of Referrals |
2016/17 | 76,945 |
2017/18 | 75,322 |
2018/19 | 73,475 |
The following table shows the number of referrals which were completed for standard CHC, for the years 2017/18 to 2018/19. We do not hold data on the number of referrals which were completed before 2017/18.
Period | Number of referrals completed |
2017/18 | 75,426 |
2018/19 | 76,803 |
The following table shows the number of people assessed as eligible for standard CHC, for the years 2015/16 to 2018/19.
Period | Number assessed as eligible |
2015/16 | 22,346 |
2016/17 | 19,173 |
2017/18 | 16,947 |
2018/19 | 15,963 |