![]() In 21-22, 68% of councils handed back at least one contract that year. The unit asked 206 upper-tier councils in the UK and the five health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland whether any care contracts the authority had awarded for individual domiciliary care had been handed back to them because the private provider could no longer fulfil the obligations of its contract.Ī total of 122 responded with at least partial data between the 2021-23 financial years. More than 13,000 home-care packages were handed back to councils over the past two years – largely because companies lacked the staffing capacity to fulfil them. The wide-ranging BBC Shared Data Unit study also found evidence of a troubled domiciliary care system – where people receive help in their own home. “In 2021 to 2022 there was an increase demand in referrals across our adult social care services by 11% which is significant for a small partnership.” Morag Barrow, director of health and social care at Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership, said: “The following year this reduced to 48 days, and we except to see a further decrease in figures going forward this year In addition to this, an estimated 6,253 people were waiting for a social care assessment.Īccording to the BBC data, the median wait time for an assessment in 21/22 ranged between zero days in Dundee City to 68 days in the Midlothian council area.īut Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership say the 68 day figure applies to completion – and not commencement – of assessment. The report comes just days after data from Public Health Scotland showed that as of July 3 this year, there were 3,964 people in Scotland who had been assessed as needing help and who were waiting for a package of care at home to be put in place. Most of the authorities that replied (59%) did not answer the questions fully but provided at least partial responses. Only 83 out of the 211 authorities (39%) collected data in a way that could be retrieved under the Freedom of Information Act. In some local authority areas, patients can be assessed on the same day as referral, while the average wait is over a month in a third of the UK. ![]() The research by the BBC’s Shared Data Unit also found large disparities in the provision of care depending on where people live. At least 1,300 people across the UK died waiting for a social care package to start during the last financial year, according to a new study. ![]()
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