Care Homes

(asked on 6th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2016 to Question 49729, what changes there were in the level of capacity available between 2010 and 2014.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 12th December 2016

The number of care homes, care home beds and home care agencies can be calculated from publicly available Care Quality Commission (CQC) data which is available at:

http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/how-get-and-re-use-cqc-information-and-data#directory

The following table shows that whilst the number of care homes has been falling, they are increasing in average size and the total number of beds has been broadly unchanged. The number of domiciliary care agencies has grown significantly and there has been a shift from residential to nursing care home provision.

September 2010

December 2014

December 2016

Change September 2010 to December 2014

Change September 2010 to December 2016

Residential care beds

255,289

240,840

238,685

-5.66%

-6.50%

Nursing care beds

205,375

224,727

220,894

9.42%

7.56%

Total care beds

460,664

465,567

459,579

1.06%

-0.24%

Residential care homes

13,681

12,494

11,966

-8.68%

-12.54%

Nursing care homes

4,387

4,721

4,515

7.61%

2.92%

Total care homes

18,068

17,215

16,481

-4.72%

-8.78%

Domiciliary care agencies

5,780

8,079

8,544

39.78%

47.82%

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