Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital bed days were lost in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK due to a lack of social care provision available for people being discharged from hospital in each year from 2010 to 2016.
The information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the number of days where patients were ready to return home or transfer to another form of care but were still occupying a bed in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2015-16. The information is shown for all delayed days regardless of responsibility, and then those delayed days for which the local authority rather than NHS provider accepted responsibility.
Number of delayed transfer of care days, 2011-12 to 2015-16
Year | St Helens2 | Merseyside3 |
All delays | ||
2011-12 | 2,929 | 20,899 |
2012-13 | 3,073 | 23,853 |
2013-14 | 3,002 | 23,321 |
2014-15 | 1,790 | 21,727 |
2015-16 | 2,281 | 29,431 |
Delays for which the local authority was responsible | ||
2011-12 | 1,373 | 8,231 |
2012-13 | 1,063 | 6,914 |
2013-14 | 660 | 3,658 |
2014-15 | 298 | 4,525 |
2015-16 | 369 | 9,345 |
Source: delayed transfers of care, NHS England
Notes:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/2016-17-data/
Health is a devolved matter in the rest of the United Kingdom.