§ Mr. RuffleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what criteria are used to determine what constitutes delayed transfer of care patients in(a) Suffolk, (b) Norfolk, (c) Cambridgeshire and (d) Essex in (i) acute and (ii) non-acute hospitals. [120431]
§ Dr. LadymanAll returns to the Department of Health are based on the following definition of a delayed discharge.
A delayed discharge occurs when a patient is ready for transfer from an 'acute' bed, but still occupying an 'acute' bed in a hospital. The patient being ready for transfer when a clinician in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team have decided both that the patient no longer requires to occupy an 'acute' hospital bed and is safe to be transferred".This information is not collected from non-acute hospitals.