Care Homes
(asked on 1st March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) registered care home and (b) nursing home places there were in the current year and in each of the previous five years.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC has provided the following information.
Number of active care homes and number of beds1 at the end of the previous five fiscal years and as at 2 March 2016.
| Number of Active Care Homes | Total Number of Active Care Homes | Number of Care Home Beds | Total Number of Care Home Beds | ||
Date | Nursing Home | Residential Home | Nursing Home | Residential Home | ||
31 March 2011 | 4,365 | 12,567 | 16,932 | 203,477 | 236,197 | 439,674 |
31 March 2012 | 4,654 | 13,161 | 17,815 | 217,266 | 250,143 | 467,409 |
31 March 2013 | 4,667 | 12,853 | 17,520 | 220,055 | 245,577 | 465,632 |
31 March 2014 | 4,683 | 12,667 | 17,350 | 222,158 | 243,547 | 465,705 |
31 March 2015 | 4,698 | 12,382 | 17,080 | 224,751 | 239,363 | 464,114 |
02 March 2016 | 4,637 | 12,133 | 16,770 | 223,899 | 237,258 | 461,157 |
1Number of beds is as at date of data extraction, or date of deactivation if care home inactive at the date of data extraction.
Source: For data relating to the 2015-2016 fiscal year and Care Standards Act summary: CQC database at 2 March 2016. For data relating to previous fiscal years: CQC database as at 7 April 2015.
Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 a single care home can have both service types of care home service with nursing and care home service without nursing. In this case, it is classified in this table as a nursing home.