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.
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/