Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: August 2021
Experimental statistics on a range of topics including infection control measures, coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations and testing for COVID-19 in adult social care settings.
27 August 2021 - Replaced 'Infection control, PPE and staffing level statistics, August 2021: data tables' with new version, to add additional suppression for regional data.
Found at: GOV.UK
Vaccination in social care settings
As of 27 July 2021, the proportions who had received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were:
93.5% of residents and 78.0% of staff of older adult care homes
88.5% of residents of younger adult care homes
75.2% of staff of younger adult care homes, 64.6% of domiciliary care staff and 32.2% of staff employed in other social care settings
Infection control measures in care homes
In the week ending 28 July 2021:
91.9% of care homes in England were able to accommodate residents receiving visitors, compared to 40.3% at the beginning of March 2021
83.3% of care homes who had staff required to self-isolate paid those staff their full wages while self-isolating. This proportion has remained consistent since mid-December
74.0% of care homes had no staff members working in another health or social care setting, this proportion has gradually declined from 78.2% at the end of April 2021
Personal protective equipment (PPE) availability in social care settings
In the week ending 27 July 2021:
0.2% of care homes in England had either no supply or were expecting to experience a shortage in the next 48 hours of at least one item of PPE. For care homes, this has been gradually decreasing since late September when 1.1% of care homes were experiencing a shortage.
COVID-19 testing in care homes
ln the week ending 27 July 2021:
there were 395,363 PCR tests and 507,948 LFD tests taken by care home staff. There were 2,602 positive results returned from PCR tests and 993 returned from LFD tests
there were 99,876 PCR tests and 17,520 LFD tests taken by care home residents. There were 491 positive results returned from PCR tests and 71 returned from LFD tests
for both care home staff and residents, there has been a decrease in the number of positive tests returned in PCR and LFD kits compared to the previous week ending 20 July 2021. Between May and mid-July, the number of positive PCR and LFD tests returned among care home staff and residents gradually increased but was still substantially lower than numbers in mid-January