Domestic Accidents: Community Health Services

(asked on 7th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of level (a) one and (b) two fall incidents community health services responded to in each of the last 12 months.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 12th December 2023

Data is not collected on the number of level one and level two falls incidents that community health services respond to. The following table shows the number of urgent community response (UCR) referrals for falls:

Month

Number of UCR referrals for falls

August 2023

2470

July 2023

2330

June 2023

2365

May 2023

2075

April 2023

1695

March 2023

1625

February 2023

1430

January 2023

1730

December 2022

1855

November 2022

1245

October 2022

1420

September 2022

1290

UCR data is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/2-hour-urgent-community-response/

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