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Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-32902

  • Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: 9 January 2025
  • Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 23 January 2025

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding the number of homeless people who are hospitalised each year who (a) die while receiving treatment and (b) are unable to be discharged due to concerns regarding their welfare.


Answer

The number of discharges from Scottish acute inpatient hospitals is presented in the following table. These figures do not include mental health facilities. These discharge figures have been produced using the Public Health Scotland SMR01 dataset which does not hold details on discharges delayed due to concerns regarding welfare.

Table 1: Discharges from Scottish acute hospitals where the patient was recorded as having no fixed abode at hospital admission.

Financial Year

Count of discharges

Count where patient died before discharge

2014-2015

237

1

2015-2016

296

1

2016-2017

312

2

2017-2018

347

6

2018-2019

206

1

2019-2020

230

1

2020-2021

183

3

2021-2022

103

2

2022-2023

62

0

2023-2024

91

0