Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 23393

Hospitals: Discharges

Tabled: 13 January 2025
Answered: 27 January 2025

Question

Helen Whately

ConservativeFaversham and Mid Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of recent trends in the level the social care capacity available to support discharges from hospitals in the last 12 months.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Comparing December 2024 to December 2023, there was a 5% decrease in the average number of patients in hospital with delayed discharge at the end of each day. In December 2024, for patients with a length of stay of at least 14 days, an average of 33% of t...

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