Heidi Alexander – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Heidi Alexander on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many residents of care homes had an emergency admission to a hospital in 2014-15.

Alistair Burt

The information is not available in the format requested.

The number of emergency admissions[1] from care homes to a hospital for 2014-15 was 22,682.

However, we cannot provide a count of how many residents of care homes had an emergency admission, because data within the Hospital Episode Statistics database is not recorded at patient level. It is possible for a single person to have more than one admission in any given time period.

[1] These are finished admission episodes (FAEs). A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.