Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with covid-19 have been discharged from hospitals into care homes in the UK.
Information is not available in the format requested.
The attached table shows a count of finished discharge episodes with any diagnosis of COVID-19 by discharge destination for each month in 2020 in England.
Health is a devolved matter within Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the data requested is therefore unavailable.
The following codes have been used within the document:
- U07.1 – Covid-19, virus identified; and
- U07.2 – Covid-19, virus not identified
The data shows the number of completed episodes and not the number of people as some individuals may have been admitted and discharged on more than one occasion during the period.
The data is provisional and is subject to review.