Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to routinely collect data on the number, outcome and details of applications for NHS Continuing Care.

The Department has no plans to collect data regarding NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) applications.

Until 31 March 2013, quarterly data on the number of people in receipt of NHS CHC funding was collected and published on the Department’s website at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-continuing-healthcare

Since 1 April 2013, responsibility for the collection of data for NHS CHC has been transferred to NHS England. Data on the number of people who are eligible for NHS CHC is published quarterly at:

www.hscic.gov.uk/article/2021/Website-Search?q=continuing+healthcare&area=both