Health Services: Rehabilitation
(asked on 21st October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Answer of 21 October 2025 to Question 905924, what the equivalent percentage numbers were for other causes of delayed discharge in (a) Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Information on the other causes of delayed discharge has been published by NHS England, and is available at the following link:
The following table shows the proportion of delayed discharges for patients with a length of stay of seven days or longer in September 2025, by primary reason for discharge delay, for the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust:
| Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust |
Hospital Process | 24% | 7% |
Wellbeing Concerns | 5% | 7% |
Care Transfer Hub Process | 19% | 16% |
Interface Process | 40% | 43% |
Capacity | 13% | 26% |
Weekly average snapshot of the total number of people per day with a length of stay of seven or more days who no had criteria to reside but who weren’t discharged | 142 | 222 |
Note: proportions do not add up to 100% due to rounding.
To support trusts with reducing delayed discharges, the Government published a new policy framework in January 2025 for the £9 billion Better Care Fund, which provides the National Health Service and local authorities with accountability for setting and achieving joint goals for reducing discharge delays, preventing avoidable emergency admissions and care home admission. Some challenged systems in need of additional support are also receiving a programme of improvement support.