Hospital Beds

(asked on 24th November 2016) - View Source

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.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 29th November 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:

  1. Data for this collection are available from August 2010. Therefore, the first financial year shown is 2011-12.
  2. The information is collected by local authority and by NHS provider, but not by parliamentary constituency. St Helens is defined as the local authority.
  3. Merseyside is defined as the five local authorities of Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, and Wirral.
  4. A time series for England is published at:

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.

  1. Allocation of delays is by local authority of residence, irrespective of who is responsible for the delay.
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