NHS Trust Statistics

Sandra Gidley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) emergency re-admissions and (b) delayed discharges there were in each NHS trust in each quarter of the last three years.

Andy Burnham
[holding answer 23 October 2006]: Robust emergency re-admissions data for the last three years are not available in the form requested. The Healthcare Commission has published information broken down by trust as part of annual star ratings assessments, which is available on its website at:

2005 ratings values, covering the calendar year 2004

ratings2005.healthcarecommission.org.uk/Trust/results/indicatorResults.asp?indicatorId=1403

2004 ratings values, covering the calendar year 2003

ratings2004.healthcarecommission.org.uk/Trust/results/indicatorResults.asp?indicatorId=1403

2002-03 ratings, covering the calendar year 2002

www.chi.nhs.uk/Ratings/Trust/results/indicatorResults.asp?indicatorId=1026

A table of the data relating to the number of delayed discharges there were in each national health service trust in each quarter of the last three years has been placed in the Library.