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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are receiving NHS continuing care in each strategic health authority in England. [223792] Dr. Ladyman: The most recent available data is for March 2004. The reported number of people in each strategic health authority (SHA) in England receiving national health service continuing care at that time is shown in the table. People receiving continuing care: March 2004 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number England (estimated)1 19,984 By SHA: Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 435 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 830 Essex 698 North West London 1,468 North Central London 320 North East London 733 South East London 580 South West London 433 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 1,081 County Durham and Tees Valley 1,374 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire 705 West Yorkshire 688 Cumbria and Lancashire 376 Greater Manchester 984 Cheshire and Merseyside 1,074 Thames Valley 632 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 530 Kent and Medway 770 Surrey and Sussex 719 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 741 South West Peninsula 516 Somerset and Dorset 241 South Yorkshire 192 Trent 928 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 215 Shropshire and Staffordshire 663 Birmingham and the Black Country 1,107 Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire 690 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 The estimated England figure does not equal the sum of the 28 SHAs listed in the table. This is because the following organisations did not return data in 2003-04: 5LC Westminster Primary Care Trust (PCT) 5A2 Norwich PCT. 5KR North and East Cornwall PCT. Notes: The figures include people receiving NHS fully funded physical and mental health care over an extended period of time, as the result of disability, accident or illness. This can be in a NHS hospital, care home or peoples' own homes. The figures exclude hospital admissions, people receiving intermediate care, NHS funded nursing care in a care home or any package of care jointly funded with social services.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1047W;432 c1048-9W; 223792

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Care homes Community care NHS Patients

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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