Dementia: Care Homes
(asked on 8th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of specialist dementia (a) residential and (b) nursing home places in Kent.
This question was answered on 15th April 2016
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC has provided the following information:
Active care home locations with the Dementia Service User Band in the Kent local authority
Type of home | Number of beds | Number of locations |
Nursing home | 3,663 | 62 |
Residential home | 4,229 | 136 |
Grand Total | 7,892 | 198 |
Source: CQC database at 11 April 2016