Care Homes
(asked on 28th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 4 March 2016 to Question 29083, how many (a) registered care home and (b) nursing home places there were in (i) 2017, (ii) 2016 and (iii) 2015.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC has provided the following information in the table below.
Number of active care homes and number of care home beds
| Number of Active Care Homes | Number of Care Home Beds | Total Number of Active Care Homes | Total Number of Care Home Beds | ||
Date | Nursing Home | Residential Home | Nursing Home | Residential Home | ||
31 March 2015 | 4,698 | 12,382 | 224,751 | 239,363 | 17,080 | 464,114 |
31 March 2016 | 4,643 | 12,122 | 224,853 | 237,182 | 16,765 | 462,035 |
29 March 2017 | 4,504 | 11,890 | 221,188 | 238,765 | 16,394 | 459,953 |
Notes:
- A care home with both service types of ‘care home with nursing’ and ‘care home without nursing’ is classified as a nursing home. A residential home is a ‘care home service without nursing’.
- Care home bed numbers can change over time. The data supplied is based on the number of beds at date of data extraction, or date of the location's de-activation if it is no longer active.