I understand that it’s possible to disaggregate episodes of admissions by where someone is resident prior to admission – my query below on care home residents relates to a local authority (code 65) or NHS (code 54) or private (code 85) run care home. (https://datadictionary.nhs.uk/attributes/source_of_admission.html)
In your NHS Trust, monthly from January 2015 to December 2020, how many emergency admissions were recorded for a) people over 65 and b) people over 65 with dementia overall and separately with
• a fall
• a Urinary Tract Infection
• Delirium
• Dehydration
• Gastroenteritis
• Influenza
• Chest Infections/ Pneumonia
• Ear, nose or throat infections
as their primary reason for emergency admission, and for each category how many were care home residents, ideally broken down by LA, NHS or Private?
By emergency admissions, we are referring to inpatient admissions to hospital (not A&E attendance), which can happen via A&E, dental casualty department, GP, bed bureau, consultant clinic, transfer from another provider or Mental Health Crisis Resolution team. We understand these are recorded under the Hospital Episode Statistic Database.
We are requesting this data by month, so we can more accurately understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on services during 2020.
If it is not possible to provide this information by month, please provide this data for calendar years 2015 to 2020.