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Number of delayed
days in the North West
STUCK IN HOSPITAL
Valuable beds are being filled by peo
ple
who are well enough to leave but can’
t.
Provision of unpaid care 2011
(persons aged under 25)
2015/16
Change
1,373,392
North West
1,809,883
436,491
138,523
229,757
91,234
Rank
1
Lancashire
2
26,756
Cumbria
44,073
17,317
3
16,962
Tameside
31,579
14,617
512
4
Trafford
13,097
12,585
5
6,002
Manchester
15,638
9,636
10,065
18,036
7,971
8,661
15,755
7,094
10,423
14,995
4,572
8,823
3,898
403,603
England
2011/12
England
North East
20,607
North West
61,503
Yorkshire & The Humber
40,098
East Midlands
34,066
6
Cheshire East
West Midlands
46,699
7
Liverpool
East of England
38,987
8
Cheshire West & Chester
70,883
9
4,925
London
Sefton
55,437
Bury
6,790
South East
10
3,480
3,310
2,429
35,323
CKING
Blackburn With Darwen UA
3,251
South West
11
5,680
12
2,704
Blackpool UA
4,440
1,736
2,736
4,409
1,673
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ABOUT THE STATISTICS
•
13
Bolton
14
6,704
Rochdale
8,125
1,421
2,790
4,169
1,379
15
Warrington UA
16
4,081
Wirral
5,294
1,213
1,753
2,849
1,096
17
Stockport
7,453
18
Halton UA
8,481
1,028
19
2,281
Knowsley
2,726
445
2,314
20
St Helens
2,516
202
2,929
21
Oldham
2,281
-648
2,477
22
Salford
1,787
-690
4,512
Wigan
3,729
-783
5,574
4,485
-1,089
Data is totalled monthly; delayed tran
23
sfers from April 2011 to March
2012 and from April 2015 to March 2016
, giving the total for each year.
• The data is for the number of patients with a
delayed transfer of care
at midnight on the last Thursday of
the reporting period in England
and the number of delayed days duri
ng the reporting period in
England. As the delayed number of
patients is a snapshot for each
month it only includes patients dela
yed at that point in time, and does
not include any other patients that