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Number of adults discharged from an acute setting during the month whose stay was 21 days or more (19975) Metric type
- Help text
- Prolonged stays in hospital are bad for patients, especially for those who are frail or elderly. Spending a long time in hospital can lead to an increased risk of falling, sleep deprivation, catching infections and sometimes mental and physical deconditioning. Despite this, nearly 350,000 patients spend more than three weeks in acute hospitals each year. Efforts to reduce the length of time someone needs to stay in hospital aims to provide patients with a better care experience by ensuring they are discharged from hospital without unnecessary delay.
This measure is the total number of discharges during the month following a stay in an acute bed where the patient is aged 18 and over and where the length of stay is 21 days or more.
This data is not currently collected at a local authority footprint in national reporting, so has been derived by the Better Care Fund team using information recorded through hospital patient administration systems, available through the Secondary Uses Service (SUS) database. This enables identification of the local authority footprint associated with the patient’s usual place of residence.
- Modified
- 13 Jul 2023
- Data last updated
- 20 Feb 2024
- Short label
- No. of adults discharged from hospital whose stay was 21 days or more
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Count of adults
- Dataset
- Adults discharged from acute hospitals
- Collection
- The Better Care Exchange
- Source
- NHS England
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