FOI 2023 137 - Delayed Transfers of Care

Information Requested:

I’ve been reading the Delivery Unit’s latest release on delayed transfers of care, which is really clear and informative (see attached). I understand you respond to requests for information on behalf of delivery unit.

Please could I request under the FOI act a breakdown of the reasons for delayed transfers for:

each local authority area
each health board area

Please could you provide this for the months of April onwards, up to the most recent available data.

I’m looking for the detail behind the summary data in tab ‘1b’ in the attached spreadsheet.

For example:

Title: Reasons for patient delays by month – Aneurin Bevan Health Board

Delays reason	Apr-23	May-23	Jun-23
Assessment Issues	95	119	206
Transfer related issues	15	4	10
Funding issues	26	4	12
Home adaptation/equipment issues	11	2	5
Home care related issues	12	17	18
Step down to recover and assess	27	6	6
Disagreements /Legislation	19	9	13
Care Home placement arrangements	102	30	34
NHS Bed related issues	6	1	1
Housing Related Issues	7	4	5
Total

And so on for the other 6 health board areas.

Title: Reasons for patient delays by month - Newport
Source: NHS Delivery Unit
Delays reason	Apr-23	May-23	Jun-23
Assessment Issues	85	67	69
Transfer related issues	4	6	6
Funding issues	3	4	50
Home adaptation/equipment issues	3	2	27
Home care related issues	20	1	28
Step down to recover and assess	12	6	13
Disagreements /Legislation	78	9	33
Care Home placement arrangements	27	3	3
NHS Bed related issues	2	11	4
Housing Related Issues	5	32	12
Total

Title: Reasons for patient delays by month - Torfaen
Source: NHS Delivery Unit
Delays reason	Apr-23	May-23	Jun-23
Assessment Issues	23	35	44
Transfer related issues	3	4	4
Funding issues	5	5	42
Home adaptation/equipment issues	7	3	21
Home care related issues	12	2	2
Step down to recover and assess	3	2	1
Disagreements /Legislation	7	2	3
Care Home placement arrangements	20	3	3
NHS Bed related issues	21	1	4
Housing Related Issues	5	3	12
Total

And so on for the other 20 local authority areas.

Please could you also give a breakdown for ‘assessment issues’ figures in each spreadsheet. For example, if there was a delay for a social care assessment, or a physio/OT assessment, or any more detail as to what comes under this category.

Please provide the data in an excel spreadsheet format or .csv and not as a pdf or word document.

Please let me know if any of the above is unclear, if you require any clarification or need any further information from me in order to respond to the request.

Information provided for the answer:

Thank you for your recent request dated 11th September 2023.
Please see below spreadsheet with the information requested.

Pathway of Care Delays Information

Please note Welsh Government are working towards publishing this Pathway of Care Delays data from November 2023.

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