Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in each of the nine English regions, how many patients medically fit to be discharged from hospital are unable to leave because of delays due to lack of capacity in domiciliary and residential care.

We do not have data that shows how many patients are unable to leave hospital due to a lack of capacity in domiciliary or residential care. For some patients, there is data on the number for whom the primary reason is that they are awaiting availability of resource for assessment and start of care at home (pathway 1) and the number awaiting availability of a bed in a residential or nursing home that is likely to be permanent (pathway 3). Pathway 1 includes domiciliary care but will also include other types of care at home provided by the National Health Service or local authority.

The following table shows the number of patients with a Length of Stay (LOS) of seven days or over on pathway 1 or pathway 3 for the week ending 14 May 2023.