Continuing Care
(asked on 15th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have applied for continuing healthcare; and how many people have received such care since 2010.
This question was answered on 18th January 2018
The number of individuals who were referred for a full NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment and those who became eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare during the years from 2014/15 to 2016/17 is shown in the table below:
| Year | Number Agreed Eligible | Number of Referrals Recieved |
| 2014/15 | 96,691 | 153,883 |
| 2015/16 | 100,960 | 160,151 |
| 2016/17 | 103,902 | 165,365 |
NHS England does not have the same data for the years prior to 2014/15.