Continuing Care: Applications

(asked on 17th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications for Standard NHS Continuing Healthcare were completed in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19.


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Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 22nd July 2019

The following table provides the total number of standard referrals received for standard NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC), for the years 2016/17 to 2018/19. We do not hold this data for 2015/16.

Period

Number of Referrals

2016/17

76,945

2017/18

75,322

2018/19

73,475

The following table shows the number of referrals which were completed for standard CHC, for the years 2017/18 to 2018/19. We do not hold data on the number of referrals which were completed before 2017/18.

Period

Number of referrals completed

2017/18

75,426

2018/19

76,803

The following table shows the number of people assessed as eligible for standard CHC, for the years 2015/16 to 2018/19.

Period

Number assessed as eligible

2015/16

22,346

2016/17

19,173

2017/18

16,947

2018/19

15,963

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