Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many instances there were of a delayed transfer of care occurring where the patient subject to the delayed transfer of care was waiting for longer than one day for a family member or friend to collect them in each year from 2007 to 2017.
The average number of available beds and the average number of delayed transfer of care (DTOC) beds in each financial year from 2010-11 is shown in the following table. Data prior to 2010 is not held centrally.
Financial Year | Average number of available beds | Average number of DTOC beds1 |
2010-11 | 142,446 | 3,783 (Partial year) |
2011-12 | 138,572 | 3,753 |
2012-13 | 136,758 | 3,783 |
2013-14 | 135,943 | 3,874 |
2014-15 | 135,498 | 4,453 |
2015-16 | 131,069 | 4,946 |
2016-17 | 130,452 | 6,181 |
2017-18 (year to date) | 129,029 | 5,579 |
Note:
1The number of DTOC beds is an estimate and is calculated by dividing the number of delayed days during the month by the number of calendar days in the month.
NHS England publishes DTOC data showing the number of delayed days by the following reasons: awaiting completion of assessment; awaiting public funding; awaiting further non-acute NHS care; awaiting residential home placement or availability; awaiting nursing home placement or availability; awaiting care package in own home; awaiting community equipment and adaptations; patient or family choice; disputes; housing – patients not covered by NHS or Community Care Act; or other.
Data on whether patients with delayed transfers of care are either homeless or waited in excess of a day for collection from hospital by a family member or friend is not held centrally.