Internal Reference Number: FOI_8738
Date Request Received: 02/07/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 14/07/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Discharges
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Please answer all the below questions under the Freedom of Information Act. Question 1: The total number of bed days lost due to discharge delays despite a person being medically fit to be discharged in each of the financial years a) 2019/20, b) 2020/21, c) 2021/22, d) 2022/23, e) 2023/24, f) 2024/25 | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to Q1, 2 and 4 in the Excel spreadsheet attached. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI_8738 - Discharges Q1, 2 and 4.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: Question 2: In relation to the question 1, the total number and proportion of these bed days lost despite a person being medically fit to be discharged due to not enough adult social care capacity in each of the financial years a) 2019/20, b) 2020/21, c) 2021/22, d) 2022/23, e) 2023/24, f) 2024/25 | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see our response to Q1, 2 and 4 in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
| Question Number 3: Question 3: In relation to question 1, the total cost and cost per bed day lost as a patient who was medically fit to be discharged could not be discharged due to a lack of adult social care capacity in each of the financial years a) 2019/20, b) 2020/21, c) 2021/22, d) 2022/23, e) 2023/24, f) 2024/25 | |
| Answer To Question 3: The information needed to answer this question would take longer to collect than the statutory time limit for FOI questions - please see attached exemption notice: delayed transfer of care patients will have spent different amounts of time on different wards, each of which will have different bed day costs. The cost to the Trust will take the form of the staff and non pay resource to care for the patients, but there will also be a cost in terms of income foregone from the alternate surgical or medical activity which would have gone through the bed should it have been available. | |
| Question Number 4: Question 4: In relation to question 1, the longest time a patient has spent in one of your Trusts hospital beds despite being medically fit to be discharged but could not be discharged due to a lack of adult social care capacity in the financial year 2024/25 | |
| Answer To Question 4: Please see our response to Q1, 2 and 4 in the Excel spreadsheet attached. | |
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