Number of delays by length of delay and reason for delay at the monthly census point.
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This publication provides monthly census snapshot position of hospital inpatients aged 18 and over, who are ready for discharge but whose discharge has been delayed. Figures are shown for NHS Board area of treatment and Local Authority.
Reasons for delay are: Health and Social Care reasons, Patient/Care/ Family related reasons and Code 9 (complex) reasons. The census figures include delays due to infection control measures in place at hospital or care home (delay reason codes 26X and 46X) from July 2016. For further guidance please see the glossary.
The PHS protocol on Statistical Disclosure Protocol is followed.
Data are validated locally by partnerships. PHS carry out further validation checks in consultation with NHS Boards.
The data are considered accurate. Data are validated locally by partnerships. PHS carry out further validation checks in consultation with NHS Boards.
Data are not comparable outwith Scotland.
It is the policy of PHS to make its web sites and products accessible according to published guidelines. All delayed discharge reports are accessible via the PHS website. Tables and charts are presented within an interactive Excel workbook with drop down boxes.
Key uses of delayed discharge information include monitoring policy obligations both locally and nationally, helping to troubleshoot in partnership areas with specific problems, facilitating benchmarking with other areas, identifying the potential release of resources to focus on more appropriate care and providing useful dialogue between health and social care agencies.
Delayed discharge information is also used to respond to information requests (including FOI requests) from a variety of customers and parliamentary questions.
Data are available for publication within six to eight weeks of the census month.
This is a linked data resource: it has a permanent unique uri at which both humans and machines can find it on the Internet, and which can be used an identifier in queries on our SPARQL endpoint.
A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values
| Dimension | Locked Value |
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Delay
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/delay
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(not locked to a value) |
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Reason For Delay
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/reasonForDelay
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(not locked to a value) |
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Reference Area
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refArea
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(not locked to a value) |
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Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
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(not locked to a value) |
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Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
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(not locked to a value) |
Linked Data is stored in graphs. We keep dataset contents (the data) separately from the metadata, to make it easier for you to find exactly what you need.
The data in this dataset are stored in the graph: http://statistics.gov.scot/graph/delayed-discharges-monthly-census
The data structure definition for this data cube dataset is stored in the same graph as the data: http://statistics.gov.scot/graph/delayed-discharges-monthly-census
All other metadata about this dataset are stored in the graph: http://statistics.gov.scot/graph/delayed-discharges-monthly-census/metadata
A breakdown by type of the 150,216 resources in this dataset's data graph.
| Resource type | Number of resources |
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| Collection | 2 |
| Component specification | 7 |
| Data set | 1 |
| Data structure definition | 1 |
| Observation | 150,205 |
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