Question reference: S6W-05267
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 21 December 2021
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 14 January 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what equalities monitoring is in place in relation to delayed discharge figures; whether it will report on any differential impacts that have been identified, and what steps it is taking to address any inequalities identified in relation to (a) BAME, (b) female and (c) disabled patients.
Answer
Delayed discharge data can be broken down by age, gender and specialty of treatment. Ethnicity and disability is not routinely collected although there is potential for ethnicity to be identified through linked data.