Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in NHS hospitals in Dorset had been waiting for discharge for more than seven days after their hospital care had been completed on the most recent date for which that information is available.
As of 30 June 2022, 275 patients in National Health Service hospitals in Dorset had waited for discharge for more than seven days following the completion of hospital care.