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Care home occupancy as at March 2025

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Case reference FOI2025/00441

Received 3 March 2025

Published 27 March 2025

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information regarding occupancy levels across CQC registered social care services. Please provide the requested information in the attached Excel spreadsheet.

For each of the following care home categories, where available, please provide data at the local authority level:

• General residential

• Dementia residential

• General nursing

• Dementia nursing

• Learning disability residential

• Learning disability nursing

• Mental health residential

• Mental health nursing

• Transitional/short stay services (this may include the following services: Discharge to Assess, Intermediate Care, Reablement Support, Rehabilitation, and Respite Care)

• YPD – Young physically disabled (provides specialised support for younger adults aged 18-65 with physical disabilities)

For each category, please provide:

1) Total number of care homes

2) Maximum capacity of these care homes

3) Total number of vacancies

4) Number of vacancies (unavailable/non-admittable beds)

5) Number of occupied beds

Response

For each of the following care home categories, where available, please provide data at the local authority level:

• General residential

• Dementia residential

• General nursing

• Dementia nursing

• Learning disability residential

• Learning disability nursing

• Mental health residential

• Mental health nursing

• Transitional/short stay services (this may include the following services: Discharge to Assess, Intermediate Care, Reablement Support, Rehabilitation, and Respite Care)

• YPD – Young physically disabled (provides specialised support for younger adults aged 18-65 with physical disabilities)

For each category, please provide:

1) Total number of care homes

2) Maximum capacity of these care homes

Answer: Please see the attached spreadsheet, as requested.

The information for Q1 and Q2 is publically available on the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) and can be viewed via the following link:

https://www.cqc.org.uk

Multiple searches can be done on the CQC website for Herefordshire based services. Links below are examples for care homes and mental health care homes:

Care Homes - https://www.cqc.org.uk/search/all?filters%5B%5D=services%3Acare-home&location-query=herefordshire&radius=10

Mental Health Care Home - https://www.cqc.org.uk/search/all?query=&location-query=&radius=&display=list&sort=relevance&last-published=&filters[]=archived:active&filters[]=lastPublished:all&filters[]=mentalHealth:all&filters[]=more_services:all&filters[]=services:mental-health&filters[]=specialisms:all

As such we consider this information to be exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 because it is reasonably accessible to you via other means. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.

3) Total number of vacancies

4) Number of vacancies (unavailable/non-admittable beds)

5) Number of occupied beds

Answer: For Q3, Q4 and Q5, Herefordshire Council do not record this data at source routinely across all service. A capacity tracker is used however the data is held by DHSC, and the data may not be updated regularly by homes.

If additional or other categories are recorded beyond those listed above, please include them in your response in the Excel template

Please provide data as a snapshot at March 2025 or, if that is not available, the most recent snapshot available, with the date specified.

Documents

Copy of Answer Template.csv (2.7 KB)

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