Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of planned transfers under the Transforming Care programme specify that the person will move into another in-patient facility.
The data is not available in the precise format requested.
Based on the latest Assuring Transformation (AT) data for March 2019, we estimate that around 30% of planned transfers under the Transforming Care programme would be to another inpatient facility.
The most recent AT data indicates that in March 2019, 25 people were transferred to another hospital setting. This was 16% of the total number of people discharged or transferred within the month.
In March 2019, there were 105 delayed discharges recorded in the AT data. The reason for the delayed discharge was recorded as follows:
Reason for delayed discharge | Number of inpatients |
Lack of agreed health care funding | 10 |
Lack of agreed social care funding | 15 |
Awaiting non-acute National Health Service care | 5 |
Awaiting residential home | 30 |
Awaiting nursing home | 0 |
Awaiting care package in own home | 10 |
Awaiting community equipment | 0 |
Patient or family choice | 10 |
Lack of local health provision | 10 |
Lack of social care support | 20 |
Lack of suitable housing provision | 40 |
Other reason for delay | 50 |
The reasons do not sum to the total number of delays as multiple reasons may be assigned to an individual patient.
In March 2019, 965 patients have a discharge planned to a community or residential setting.