Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2014 to Question 202551, how many residents of care homes had an emergency admission to a hospital in 2013-14.

Information on the number of emergency admissions from care homes to a hospital in 2013-14 is shown in the following table, alongside the total number of emergency admissions.

Number of finished admission episodes for emergency admissions by source of admission in England, 2013-14

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre

Notes:

1. Includes activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.

2. A finished admission episode (FAE) is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.

3. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice.

4. FAEs recorded as "The usual place of residence, including no fixed abode" may contain a number of episodes where patients may have resided in care homes, subsequently designating it as their usual place of residence. Consequently, these episodes were not recorded as admissions from a care home. The number of times this may have occurred is unknown.