Care Homes

(asked on 11th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many care homes with (a) a dementia service band and (b) an older people service band there were in (i) England, (ii) the North West and (iii) Lancashire in the latest period for which figures are available.


Answered by
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Norman Lamb
This question was answered on 18th March 2015

The Care Quality Commission (CQC), as the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England, registers and regulates all providers. We are informed by CQC that, as at 1 March 2015, the information requested was as follows:

Area

Numbers of care homes registered in service bands

Dementia

Older people

England

7,043

11,056

North West

884

1,535

Lancashire County

232

434

Source: CQC database as at 1 March 2015

Notes:

1. Service bands are not mutually exclusive. The number of care homes caring for older people may be higher than the number registered under the “Older people” service band. Care homes may be registered under a service band such as "Dementia" and not under "Older people", even though it is highly likely that they will care for people aged over 65.

2. Data for the North West comprises the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire.

3. Data for Lancashire County comprises:

- Lancashire (which includes districts of West Lancashire, Chorley, South Ribble, Fylde, Preston, Wyre, Lancaster, Ribble Valley, Pendle, Burnley, Rossendale, Hyndburn)

- Blackburn with Darwen (unitary authority)

- Blackpool (unitary authority)

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