PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Care Homes: Kent (2 February 2024)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many adult social care residential care home places there were in (a) Kent and (b) Canterbury in each year since 2015.

Asked by:
Rosie Duffield (Independent)

Answer

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) publish the CQC Care Directory annually, which lists the number of care home registrations in the adult social care sector. This includes the number of care home beds, with or without nursing. The following table shows the number of CQC registered care home beds for Kent, on 1 January of each year from 2015 onwards:

Year

Registered Care Home Beds

2015

15,198

2016

15,131

2017

14,406

2018

14,590

2019

14,431

2020

14,610

2021

14,586

2022

14,598

2023

14,543

2024

14,638

The following table shows the number of care home beds for Canterbury, on 1 January of each year from 2015 onwards:

Year

Registered Care Home Beds

2015

943

2016

980

2017

973

2018

981

2019

1,020

2020

1,025

2021

1,007

2022

984

2023

976

2024

1,087

Note: This data is also from the CQC Care Directory but cross-referenced with postcode data to identify care home beds in Canterbury with or without nursing.


Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
7 February 2024

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