FoI Number
2024-069
Subject
Delayed Discharges
Date Received
24/04/2024
Request and Response
  1. Number and proportion of bed days in your health board, by month since January 2018, occupied by patients who were at that time delayed in being discharged. Please also break this down by hospital.

In accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 25(1) as the information requested is accessible without submitting a request under FOISA s 1(1).  Public Health routinely publish this data. The information you have requested is available here:

Delayed Discharges in NHS Scotland

  1. Number and proportion of bed days occupied in your health board, by month since January 2018, by patients delayed in their discharge due to lack of social care availability.

In accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 25(1) as the information requested is accessible without submitting a request under FOISA s 1(1).  Public Health routinely publish this data. The information you have requested is available here:

Delayed Discharges in NHS Scotland

  1. Total bed day capacity in your health board, by month since January 2018.

In accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 25(1) as the information requested is accessible without submitting a request under FOISA s 1(1).  Public Health routinely publish this data. The information you have requested is available here:

https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/?ic=topics-delayed-discharges&q=&fq=topics%3ADelayed+discharges%23&sort=pdesc

 

https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/delayed-discharges-in-nhsscotland