Hospitals: Discharges
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many delayed discharges there were (a) at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, (b) in Hampshire and (c) in England in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The data collection used for monitoring delayed discharges was changed in 2020. In addition, the Department and NHS England do not hold data on the number of delayed discharges at hospital level, and trust level data was published from 2022 onwards. As such, we have provided data on the number of delayed discharges at trust and national level from 2021 to present.
The following table shows the average daily number of acute adult patients remaining in hospital at the end of the day despite being medically fit, that is, patients with no criteria to reside and not discharged, in each financial year since 2021/22:
Year | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | England | Comments |
2021/22 | n/a | 9,891 | Published data not available at trust level before April 2022. 2021/22 figures affected by Covid-19 pandemic (low bed occupancy rates) |
2022/23 | 174 | 13,227 |
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2023/24 | 160 | 12,693 |
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2024/25 | 153 | 12,381 | Average for the year so far up to 30 November 2024 |
Source: NHS England
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