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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(17 December 2024)

Question Asked

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.

Asked by:
Luke Murphy (Labour)

Answer

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

2023/24

160

12,693

2024/25

153

12,381

Average for the year so far up to 30 November 2024

Source: NHS England


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