NHSOF 3.6.i: Proportion of Older People at Home 91 Days After Hospital Discharge

A performance indicator measuring the proportion of older people (aged 65 and over) who maintain independence by being at home 91 days after leaving hospital and receiving reablement or rehabilitation services. The dataset is published by the Government Digital Service under the Open Government Licence, with a version updated in November 2016 and a next version due in November 2017.

Use Cases

• Evaluate the success rate of rehabilitation services based on the 91-day home residency outcome metric.
• Benchmark hospital discharge and follow-up care performance across different regions or time periods.
• Model factors influencing long-term independence for elderly patients after a hospital episode.
• Inform policy and resource allocation for elderly care services based on outcome data.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, key outcome metric (91-day home residency) for a defined population (65+).
• Published under the Open Government Licence, facilitating reuse and analysis.
• Data is available in common, accessible formats (Excel XLS and CSV).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely collected as part of national health service performance monitoring.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Update frequency or recency is unknown.

Geography

Spatial coverage is not specified, but likely pertains to the United Kingdom given the NHSOF framework.