Analysis of the commissioning of specialist palliative care beds
| Total number of CCGs who provided usable data | 115 | |||||
| Average number of beds per 1000 people with palliative care needs | 13.58 | |||||
| Maximum number of beds per 1000 people with palliative care needs | 61.65 | |||||
| Minimum number of beds per 1000 people with palliative care needs | 0.55 | |||||
| Median number of beds per 1000 people with palliative care needs | 9.96 | |||||
| Range of number of beds per 1000 people with palliative care needs | 61.10 | |||||
| Analysis of patient accessibility to specialist palliative care beds | ||||||
| Do you commission for seven day admissions to Specialist Palliative Care Beds? | Yes | No | INH | NA | No response | |
| 163 | 26 | 7 | 5 | 8 | ||
| All hospice beds you commission? (of those that answered Yes) | Yes | No—some | INH | NA | No response | |
| 122 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 4 | ||
| Analysis of patient accessibility to NHS funded specialist palliative care beds | ||||||
| Yes—a specific number | Yes—allocated on needs basis | No | INH | NA | No response | |
| Do you commission for 7-day admissions to NHS-funded Specialist Palliative Care beds in hospitals, and if so how many? | 1 | 9 | 5 | 28 | 145 | 1 |
| Do you commission for 7-day admissions to NHS-funded Specialist Palliative Care beds in another facility, and if so how many? | 2 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 167 | 1 |
Data analysis of specialist palliative care beds commissioned by CCGs. Analysis of the data collected about patient admission to specialist palliative care beds. ‘Usable data’ refers to a quantitative figure provided by the CCG which could be analysed using descriptive statistics, and did not represent the number of beds to serve more than one CCG area. (INH, information not held by CCG; NA, not applicable.)