HEALTH SERVICES: SOCIAL SERVICES
Sir NIcholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data his Department collects on the state and quality of health and social care co-ordination; and if he will make a statement.
Alistair Burt, Minister of State for Community and Social Care: Currently, an integrated health and social care scorecard on the MyNHS website shows performance on the four core metrics used for the Better Care Fund:
- Total non-elective admissions (general and acute) per 100,000 population;
- Total permanent admissions to residential and nursing care per 100,000 population of people aged 65 and over;
- Proportion of older people still at home 91 days after discharge from hospital into reablement/rehabilitation services; and
- Delayed transfers of care (total delayed days) from hospital.
The scorecard can be found at:
The data presented here relates to the performance of health and social care services provided within the area covered by each of the 151 Health and Wellbeing Boards.
On 1 July during the Local Government Association annual conference, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health announced a new set of unified metrics for the integration of health and social care.
The metrics will consist of a range of indicators that can measure how areas are progressing in relation to the integration of health and care services, including the impact of integration on service provision and individual experience. They will be used as a tool for areas to check on their progress towards a fully integrated health and social care system, to compare this progress to other local areas, and will allow best practice from those areas progressing well to be shared across the system. All areas should be baselined and benchmarked nationally by December 2015.
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