Care Homes: Standards
(asked on 4th September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will make an assessment of the occupancy levels in CQC-regulated care homes.
This question was answered on 14th September 2020
The Department collects weekly data on occupancy rates in care homes through the capacity tracker. However, the data has not yet been published. The Care Quality Commission also collects provider information return data which can be used to calculate occupancy rates. However, this collection has been suspended during the pandemic, is unpublished and is insufficiently regular to track occupancy in the current environment.