29 November 2017

Flow of patients between the NHS and social care - local performance metrics

Local area performance metrics
Department of Health, 29 November 2017
  • A new dashboard which allows local areas of assess the flow of patients across the boundary between the NHS and social care. 
  • It provides a set of six measures indicating how health and social care partners in every Local Authority area in England are performing at the interface between health and social care. Included in the dashboard is a breakdown of delayed days attributable to social care per 100,000 of the population and the equivalent for NHS-attributable delays. 
  • The metrics are:
    • Emergency Admissions (65+) per 100,000 65+ population 
    • 90th percentile of length of stay for emergency admissions (65+) 
    • TOTAL Delayed Days per day per 100,000 18+ population 
    • Proportion of older people (65 and over) who were still at home 91 days after discharge from hospital into reablement/ rehabilitation services 
    • Proportion of older people (65 and over) who are discharged from hospital who receive reablement/ rehabilitation services 
    • Proportion of discharges (following emergency admissions) which occur at the weekend