Waiting list for care at home packages is more than 50% longer, per head, in England than in Scotland

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Professor John Robertson OBA

From Public Health Scotland today:

The estimated number of people assessed and waiting for a care at home package was 2,873 on 3 March 2025.1

All things being equal, with 10 times the population, England might be expected then to have around 28 700 assessed but still waiting.

According to the latest data from GOV UK, for September 2024, it was 44 000, down from 51 000 in the previous quarter.2

So, around 52% more of those assessed and waiting for care at home package, are still waiting in England, compared to that in Scotland.

Sources:

  1. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/people-requiring-a-social-care-assessment-and-care-at-home-services/people-requiring-a-social-care-assessment-and-care-at-home-services-25-march-2025/
  2. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/adult-social-care-in-england-monthly-statistics-january-2025/adult-social-care-in-england-monthly-statistics-january-2025#main-points

6 thoughts on “Waiting list for care at home packages is more than 50% longer, per head, in England than in Scotland”

    1. This is about care at home, not care homes which are residential fopr older people and those with no care at home and no one able to look after them for example a fmaily member.
      Also the assisted dying bill, if stringent protections are put in place, should not reslt in anyone forced to into that at all. I had an old pal a couple of years ago who was terminally ill, he would have chosen assisted dying but spent more than six months in a private expensive care home, confined to bed, which he said was a living death. He’d said he would have chosen to be painlessly, humanely put to sleep shall we say, had he had the choice. The assisted dying bill is being misinterpretated as an abusive lacking in choice, act, and a way to cull certain people, that is not the case and should never be the case.

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  2. It’s going to become an increasing issue nonetheless John, we’ve got to get out of this austerity Union strait-jacket if it’s ever to be properly addressed…

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