Continuing Care
(asked on 25th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications for NHS continuing healthcare were (a) made and (b) successful in (i) Preston, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) England in each of the last three years.
We have interpreted this as the number of new referrals and the number assessed as eligible across Standard and Fast Track NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC), from 2020/21 to 2022/23. The following table shows the overall number of applicants and successful applicants to CHC in Lancashire and South Cumbria, Greater Preston, and England:
| England | Lancashire and South Cumbria | Greater Preston |
Applicants in 2020/21 | 129,388 | 4,521 | 448 |
Successful applicants in 2020/21 | 83,364 | 2,944 | 277 |
Applicants in 2021/22 | 162,581 | 7,202 | 702 |
Successful applicants in 2021/22 | 106,937 | 5,270 | 506 |
Applicants in 2022/23 | 171,664 | 7,158 | 720 |
Successful applicants in 2022/23 | 112,833 | 5,165 | 518 |
This data is also published online, and is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/nhs-chc-fnc/