Proportion of patients of all ages discharged back to usual place of residence within 56 days of emergency admission to hospital with a stroke.
In the absence of routine data on patient levels of function and well-being, a return to usual residence following a stroke may act as a proxy for successful outcome of rehabilitation. The category of accommodation as coded in Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is used as a proxy for place of residence. Although the proportion of those who return to pre-stroke category of accommodation will depend partly on the availability of support at home and the quality of community services, a change in the category of accommodation may suggest an important change in functional ability and health status. There are variations between ‘like’ populations in the proportions who return to usual residence. The National Health Service (NHS) may be able to avoid unnecessarily prolonged hospital stay by learning lessons from the experience of others and alerting those with responsibility for social care about problems.The 56 day cut-off point was selected for consistency with a similar indicator developed for use in Scotland.
This indicator has been discontinued and so there will be no further updates.
Legacy unique identifier: P00813