Supported Discharge
Dear Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council,
The local authority employs Social Workers working out of local hospitals to facilitate safe discharge. This support may take the form of a care package or personal budget.
In the year 2009-2010 how many people were provided with social work support on leaving hospital?
Furthermore can you please provide a general breakdown of the primary health condition necessitating the support. For example an individual admitted with a broken hip may need home carers to assist with personal care on discharge.
How many people received intermediate care or reablement services (short term support on leaving hospital)?
How much was spent on care packages for people leaving hospital as part of their discharge arrangements?
How many people received a social work needs assessment whilst an inpatient?
How many qualified social workers working within hospitals does the local authority employ?
Thank you for your assistance in this matter. All information is gratefully received.
Yours faithfully,
Mr M Jones
Dear Mark,
Thank you for your request for information regarding Social Workers
working out of local hospitals to facilitate safe discharge. Your
request was received on 5th January 2011 and I am dealing with it under
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I am writing to confirm that the Adult Social Care has now completed its search for the information which you requested and is outlined below:
In relation to the requests made:
1. Is not clear what is meant by social work support on discharge. We have taken this to mean number of patients who received commissioned care (including intermediate care) on discharge rather than simply number assessed by a social worker which forms part of request number 5.
2. We cannot easily provide a breakdown of primary health conditions as this is not recorded electronically and would require us to individually interrogate all assessments completed (in access of 1200).
3. We have taken this to mean intermediate care provided by social services rather than health and to include re-ablement services and residential rehab.
4. Unclear whether this request is to include dom care and residential care. We provide info broken down between private dom care, residential and intermediate care services.
5. Numbers receiving social work assessment - 712 people, 800 provisions, 1450 assessments carried out on 931 people.
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6. During 2009/2010 the number of qualified social workers in the hospital team has varied according to vacancies etc. but the establishment figure was 8 + 1 specialising in intermediate care.
Not all patients are assessed by the ASC team (a limited number are seen by community social workers) but we are assuming that the information requested does just relate to patients dealt with by ASC team i.e. "social workers working out of local hospitals".
Provision Type Number of People Number of Provisions Total Provision Cost
Day Care Ind Total 4 4 £3,054.02
Day Care In-house Total 4 4 £5,680.91
Dom Intermediate Care Total 180 208 £95,487.11
Extra Care Total 1 1 £1,658.29
Ind Dom Total 203 233 £321,271.34
In-house Dom Total 6 6 £270.75
Intermediate Residential In-house Total 87 89 £184,332.57
Meals Total 28 29 £6,213.70
Nursing Ind Total 26 30 £152,856.74
Residential Ind Total 143 160 £718,197.30
Residential In-house Total 30 36 £88,387.00
Grand Total 712 800 £1,577,409.73
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