Care Homes
(asked on 15th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) nursing homes, and (2) nursing home beds, were registered with the Care Quality Commission at the end of September in the financial years from 2015/16 to 2019/20.
The following table shows the number of nursing homes registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) along with the number of nursing home beds, between 2015 and 2019.
Active at | Number of nursing homes | Number of beds |
30 September 2015 | 4,515 | 219,733 |
30 September 2016 | 4,446 | 218,972 |
30 September 2017 | 4,436 | 220,317 |
30 September 2018 | 4,440 | 222,216 |
30 September 2019 1 | 4,379 | 221,283 |
Source: CQC database as at 16 January 2020.
Notes:
1The data is as at 16 January 2020.
All other data is as at 1 April 2019.
‘Nursing homes’ are defined as locations with the service type of 'care home service with nursing'.