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